// GET RANDOM USERS
$randuser = $database->database_query("SELECT user_id, user_username, user_photo, user_fname, user_lname FROM se_users WHERE user_photo<>'' AND user_id<>".$user->user_info[user_id]." ORDER BY RAND()");
while($rand = $database->database_fetch_assoc($randuser)) {
  $rand_user = new se_user();
  $rand_user->user_info[user_id] = $rand[user_id];
  $rand_user->user_info[user_username] = $rand[user_username];
  $rand_user->user_info[user_photo] = $rand[user_photo];
  $rand_user->user_info[user_fname] = $rand[user_fname];
  $rand_user->user_info[user_lname] = $rand[user_lname];
  $rand_user->user_displayname();

  $randuser_array[] = $rand_user;

}

$smarty->assign('randuser', $randuser_array);

<div class='header'>Random Members</div>
  <div class='portal_content'>
    {section name=randuser_loop loop=$randuser max=5}
      {cycle name="startrow8" values="<table cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' align='center'><tr>,,,,"}
      <td class='portal_member'>
<table cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'>
<tr>
<td>
<div style='border: 1px solid #e0e0e0; padding:2px;'>
<a href='{$url->url_create('profile', $randuser[randuser_loop]->user_info.user_username)}'><img src='{$randuser[randuser_loop]->user_photo('./images/nophoto.gif', TRUE)}' class='photo' width='60' height='60' border='0'></a></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div style='font-size:8pt;'>
<a href='{$url->url_create('profile', $randuser[randuser_loop]->user_info.user_username)}'>{$randuser[randuser_loop]->user_displayname|truncate:8:"...":true}</a></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
      {* END ROW AFTER 5 RESULTS *}
      {if $smarty.section.randuser_loop.last == true}
        </tr></table>
      {else}
        {cycle name="endrow8" values=",,,,</tr></table>"}
      {/if}
    {/section}
  </div>