Looking For A Script - Does This Exist?

[Lee]

Im trying to find a script that will randomize the order of certain word lists.

For example lets say i have the following words in a text file..

Cat
Dog
Fish

I would paste them into the script and it would then output something like this..

Cat
Dog
Fish
CatDog
CatFish
DogCar
DogFish
FishCat
FishDog

Anyone know if such a script exists and if so, do you happen to have a link handy

Regards,

Lee

[Corey Bryant]

Hm, methinks you stumped me this time. But I will ask this & then take a look - PHP, ASP, or .NET?

[Lee]

.php would be preferred if it is to be server based

Hehe thanks for the help, so far i have checked out hotscripts.com and drawn a blank so im really thinking this is non-existant

Regards,

Lee

[Corey Bryant]

Ok - I am on it .

[Corey Bryant]

Well this is what I sort of have come up with. I do not think any pre-made commercial script is out there.

I found this for documentation on strings:

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php

And then someone gave me this code - if it works - fantastic:

// Text file containing words 
$txt = '/path/to/wordfile.txt'; 

$handle = fopen($txt, 'r'); 

if (!$handle) { 
   die('Could not open...'); 
} 

// set up arrays for storing words and concatenated words 
$words = array(); 
$cwords = array(); 

// get the words 
while (!feof($handle)) { 
   // strip_newlines is not a real function - needs to be implemented 
   array_push($words, strip_newlines(fgets($handle))); 
} 

// while we still have words 
for ($i = 0; $i < count($words); $i++) { 
   // get the current word 
   $curword = $words[$i]; 
   // loop over the words 
   foreach ($words as $word) { 
      // if the word is the same as the current word, skip it - i.e. no CatCat 
      if ($word == $curword) { 
         continue; 
      } 
      // append the concatenated word to the array 
      array_push($cwords, $curword.$word); 
    } 
} 

print_r($words); 
print_r($cwords);

(Sorry we usually work on ASP actually).

[Lee]

Hehe well i got the setup bit done LOL

Getting an error and i know nothing about php

Regards,

Lee

[Corey Bryant]

I'll ask. My pogrammers do ASP so I know enough ASP ot get myself into trouble & enough PHP to be sent to jail

[Lee]

Haha thanks Corey, dont go out of your way though.. i appreciate the help and everything but im sure you have more important stuff to do than help me and my need for a new toy to play with LOL

Regards,

Lee

[Corey Bryant]

No worries. It seems like it should be pretty simple actually. I have emailed a few of my buddies that know more PHP & since I have this part of the script, I would think it should be pretty easy

[Corey Bryant]

Try this

// Text file containing words 
$txt = '/path/to/wordfile.txt'; 

$handle = fopen($txt, 'r'); 

if (!$handle) { 
   die('Could not open...'); 
} 

// set up arrays for storing words and concatenated words 
$words = array(); 
$cwords = array(); 

// get the words
while (!feof($handle)) {
   // strip_newlines is not a real function - needs to be implemented
   array_push($words, trim(fgets($handle)));
}


// while we still have words 
for ($i = 0; $i < count($words); $i++) { 
   // get the current word 
   $curword = $words[$i]; 
   // loop over the words 
   foreach ($words as $word) { 
      // if the word is the same as the current word, skip it - i.e. no CatCat 
      if ($word == $curword) { 
         continue; 
      } 
      // append the concatenated word to the array 
      array_push($cwords, $curword.$word); 
    } 
} 

print_r($words); 
print_r($cwords);

[Lee]

Yep that works thanks

Now i have one more quick question LOL

Is there something i can alter to make it only display the word combinations without any of that extra 'funky' stuff? Sorry

Regards,

Lee

[Corey Bryant]

No worries. I don't test this myself. So more like the output to be:
Cat
Dog
Fish
CatDog
CatFish
DogCar
DogFish
FishCat
FishDog

Or
Cat Dog Fish CatDog CatFish DogCat DogFish FishCat FishDog

(or does it matter)

Thanks!

[Lee]

Originally posted by Corey Bryant
Cat
Dog
Fish
CatDog
CatFish
DogCar
DogFish
FishCat
FishDog

Like that would be PERFECT!

Thanks again Corey

Regards,

Lee

[Corey Bryant]

This is what I was told:

Instead of:

print_r($words);
print_r($cwords);

use:

foreach ($words as $var) echo $var."<br>";
foreach ($cwords as $var2) echo $var2."<br>";

So I am guess:

// Text file containing words 
$txt = '/path/to/wordfile.txt'; 

$handle = fopen($txt, 'r'); 

if (!$handle) { 
   die('Could not open...'); 
} 

// set up arrays for storing words and concatenated words 
$words = array(); 
$cwords = array(); 

// get the words 
while (!feof($handle)) { 
   // strip_newlines is not a real function - needs to be implemented 
   array_push($words, strip_newlines(fgets($handle))); 
} 

// while we still have words 
for ($i = 0; $i < count($words); $i++) { 
   // get the current word 
   $curword = $words[$i]; 
   // loop over the words 
   foreach ($words as $word) { 
      // if the word is the same as the current word, skip it - i.e. no CatCat 
      if ($word == $curword) { 
         continue; 
      } 
      // append the concatenated word to the array 
      array_push($cwords, $curword.$word); 
    } 
} 

foreach ($words as $var) echo $var."<br>";
foreach ($cwords as $var2) echo $var2."<br>";

[Corey Bryant]

Or even:

$output = array_merge($words,$cwords);
echo implode("<br>\n",$output);