{"id":444,"date":"2010-01-05T12:05:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T12:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/?p=444"},"modified":"2010-01-07T10:20:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T10:20:35","slug":"wordsearch-php-words-to-search-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/05\/wordsearch-php-words-to-search-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Wordsearch php – Words to search for"},"content":{"rendered":"

As from the main project, wordsearch<\/a>, here is the part that will either load the words from a xml file or from a input string on a web page. The grid class can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The basics of the word class, is to load a xml file (or via a user input string\/s) and then generate words to search from the words that have either been loaded or inputted. <\/p>\n

The word class can again be inherited so that each part can be re-done differently if there is another way to open a file etc.<\/p>\n

I have included comments in the code, the __construct <\/strong> and __destruct<\/strong> are what happens when the class is created (via the “new” command) and destroyed respectively. Just a nice way to create the class\/object and also clean up after itself.<\/p>\n

The parameters that are passed to the __construct<\/strong> have default values, words.xml and 5, these can be over written when creating the class as shown in the code (instead of the maxSearchNum being 5 it is 3. But this gives more control over the construction of the class.<\/p>\n

\r\n_words = array();\r\n\t\r\n\t\/\/ if the filename is actually words from the input screen then just add in them instead\r\n\tif (is_array($wordsOrFilename)) \r\n\t{\r\n\t  $_loadedWords = $wordsOrFilename;\r\n\t}\r\n\telse\r\n\t{\r\n\t  \/\/ load the file of words into a array\r\n\t  $_loadedWords = $this->loadWords($wordsOrFilename);\r\n\t}\r\n\t\/\/ create a array of words to be searched for, max number as above\r\n\t$this->_words = $this->searchableWords($_loadedWords, $maxSearchNum);\r\n    }\r\n    \r\n    \/\/ unset the class words variable.\r\n    public function __destruct()\r\n    {\r\n\tunset($this->_words);\r\n    }\r\n\r\n    \/\/ load in the words file \r\n    public function loadWords($filename)\r\n    {\r\n\t$xmlFileLoad = simplexml_load_file($filename);\r\n\t$returnWords = array();\r\n\t$i=0;\r\n\tforeach ($xmlFileLoad->word as $theword)\r\n\t{\r\n\t  \/\/ only the string, because otherwise it would be a simpleXMLObject\r\n\t  $returnWords[$i++] = (string)$theword;\r\n\t}\r\n\treturn $returnWords;\r\n    }\r\n\r\n    \/\/ searchableWords will create a array of words to search for from the searchablewords parameter, with maximum number of searchs (maxsearch)\r\n    public function searchableWords($searchableWords, $maxSearch)\r\n    {\r\n\t$returnSearchWords = array();\r\n\t$numberSearchWords = count($searchableWords);\r\n\t\/\/ if the maxsearch value is greater or equal to the number of searchable words just fill in the return will all of the words\r\n\tif ($numberSearchWords <= $maxSearch)\r\n\t{\r\n\t    for ($i = 0; $i < $numberSearchWords; $i++)\r\n\t    {\r\n\t      $returnSearchWords[$i] = $searchableWords[$i];\r\n\t    }\r\n\t}\r\n\telse\r\n\t{\r\n\t  \/\/ randomly pick out words from the array of searchable words\r\n\t  for ($i = 0; $i < $maxSearch; $i++)\r\n\t  {\r\n\t    \/\/ re-index the array\r\n\t    $searchableWords = array_values($searchableWords);\r\n\t    \/\/ obtain a random index value\r\n\t    $searchWordNum = rand(0, count($searchableWords)-1);\r\n\t    \/\/ insert into the return value\r\n\t    $returnSearchWords[$i] = $searchableWords[$searchWordNum];\r\n\t    \/\/ delete the word from the array\r\n\t    unset($searchableWords[$searchWordNum]);\r\n\t  }\r\n\t}\r\n\treturn $returnSearchWords;\r\n    }\r\n    \r\n    public function wordsArray()\r\n    {\r\n\treturn $this->_words;\r\n    }\r\n\r\n    public function printOutWords()\r\n    {\r\n\tprit_r($this->_words);\r\n    }\r\n};\r\n\r\n\r\n$wordsToSearch = new Word(\"words.xml\",3);\r\n$wordsToSearch->printOutWords();\r\n?>\r\n<\/pre>\n
and the output would be something like, of course since it is random generated, then could be the same words or different ones!!.<\/p>\n
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