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From the post on the projects page, wordsearch<\/a>, here is a basic design of a grid class that can be used to link together with the other aspects of a wordsearch game. This will be able to create a basic grid and populate it with characters.<\/p>\n

The reason why I created the createGridRow function was because this class could be inherited and thus alter any aspects of the class to suit the future needs.<\/p>\n

The <\/p>\n

$this-><\/pre>\n
 within the code references the local variables of the class and not any other variables e.g. local to that function.<\/p>\n
The <\/p>\n
chr(rand(0,25) + 97);<\/pre>\n
 means create a chr (character) from a random generated value within a range of 0 to 25 (26 letters in the English alphabet) and then add the value 97 to it, because the integer value of 97 – 125 are the ascii codes for a-z characters.<\/p>\n
\r\n_size = $size; \r\n      $this->_grid = array();\r\n      for ($i =1; $i <= $this->_size; $i++)\r\n      {\r\n\t\/\/ create each row of the grid with the class function createGridRow\r\n\t$this->_grid[$i] = $this->createGridRow();\r\n      }\r\n    }\r\n    \r\n    \/\/ delete the grid \r\n    public function __destruct()\r\n    {\r\n      \/\/ clear up the grid, each line and then the whole object.\r\n      for ($i = 1; $i <= $this->_size; $i++)\r\n      {\r\n\tunset($this->_grid[$i]);\r\n      }\r\n      unset($this->_grid);\r\n    }\r\n    \r\n    \/* createGridRow, this can be inherited and thus altered to create any type of character in the grid *\/\r\n    public function createGridRow()\r\n    {\r\n\t$_grid_insert = array();\r\n\tfor ($j = 1; $j <= $this->_size; $j++)\r\n\t{\r\n\t  $_grid_insert[$j] = chr(rand(0,25) + 97);\r\n\t}\r\n\treturn $_grid_insert;\r\n    }\r\n    \r\n    \/* basic print out of a grid *\/\r\n    public function printOut()\r\n    {\r\n      echo \"The grid\";\r\n      for ($i = 1; $i <= $this->_size; $i++)\r\n      {\r\n\techo \"$i .. \";\r\n\tfor ($j = 1; $j <= $this->_size; $j++)\r\n\t{\r\n\t    echo \" $j = \".$this->_grid[$i][$j];\r\n\t}\r\n\techo \"\";\r\n      }\r\n    }\r\n\r\n    \/* return the size of the grid *\/\r\n    public function returnSize()\r\n    {\r\n      return $this->_size;\r\n    }\r\n    \r\n    \/* insert a character into the grid at position X, Y and the character *\/\r\n    public function insertCharIntoGrid($pX, $pY, $char)\r\n    {\r\n\t$this->_grid[$pY][$pX] = $char;\r\n    }\r\n    \r\n    \/* return the grid reference *\/\r\n    public function returnGrid()\r\n    {\r\n      return $this->_grid;\r\n    }\r\n}\r\n$wordsearch_grid = new Grid(6);\r\n$wordsearch_grid->printOut();\r\n?>\r\n<\/pre>\n
The output of the code as above is<\/p>\n
\r\nThe grid\r\n1 .. 1 = l 2 = l 3 = z 4 = m 5 = h 6 = m\r\n2 .. 1 = u 2 = r 3 = z 4 = s 5 = k 6 = y\r\n3 .. 1 = f 2 = k 3 = j 4 = n 5 = k 6 = p\r\n4 .. 1 = h 2 = p 3 = x 4 = o 5 = c 6 = q\r\n5 .. 1 = s 2 = s 3 = x 4 = r 5 = u 6 = v\r\n6 .. 1 = r 2 = f 3 = g 4 = q 5 = s 6 = o\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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