Question

Can anyone please help me? Say if I had this text or a smaller section stored in a variable, how can I randomise the words in the ‘{ }’ ?
For example, the first one is “{important|essential|crucial|critical|vital|significant}” how can I make PHP choose one of those words randomly and then echo it? Thanks for helping me. 🙂

Answer 1

http://webarto.com/62/random-sentence-spinning-function

function get_random($matches)
{
    $rand = array_rand($split = explode("|", $matches[1]));
    return $split[$rand];
}

function show_randomized($str)
{
    $new_str = preg_replace_callback('/\{([^{}]*)\}/im', "get_random", $str);
    if ($new_str !== $str) $str = show_randomized($new_str);
    return $str;
}

Applied on your text file… http://ideone.com/rkuf6