RE: Ordering Products

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<!-- show_random //-->
	  <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
          <tr>
            <td>
<?php

  if ($random_product = tep_random_select("select products_id, products_image, products_tax_class_id, products_price from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " where products_status='1'")) {
    $random_product['products_name'] = tep_get_products_name($random_product['products_id']);
    $random_product['specials_new_products_price'] = tep_get_products_special_price($random_product['products_id']);

    $info_box_contents = array();
    $info_box_contents[] = array('align' => 'left',
                                 'text'  => 'BOX_HEADING_MAIN_PRODUCTS'
                                );
    new infoBoxHeading($info_box_contents, true, false, tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, '', 'NONSSL'));

$random_query = tep_db_query("select products_id, products_image, products_tax_class_id, products_price from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " where products_status='1' order by rand() limit 9"); 

for ($row=0, $info_box_contents = array(); $row < 3;$row++ ) { 
for ($col=0; $col < 3; $col++) { 
$random_product = tep_db_fetch_array($random_query); 
$random_product['products_name'] = tep_get_products_name($random_product['products_id']); 
$random_product['specials_new_products_price'] = tep_get_products_special_price($random_product['products_id']); 

$info_box_contents[$row][$col] = array('align' => 'center', 
'text' => '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $random_product['products_id']) . '">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $random_product['products_image'], $random_product['products_name'], SMALL_IMAGE_WIDTH, SMALL_IMAGE_HEIGHT) . '</a><br><a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $random_product['products_id'], 'NONSSL') . '">' . $random_product['products_name'] . '</a><br>' . $rprod_price); 
} 
} 
new contentBoxHeading($info_box_contents); 

?>
            </td>
          </tr>
	  </table>
<!-- show_random_eof //-->
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it seems that it says that in line
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$random_query = tep_db_query("select products_id, products_image, products_tax_class_id, products_price from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " where products_status='1' order by rand() limit 9"); 
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it doesn't expect the '$' and when I take it out is doesn't like that = sign,

any ideas, and thanks so much for this help