Question

I have this script to generate static html pages for each store location the company has from a .xls list, then the script encodes urls after store location based on a keyword string.

as it is currently:

keyword_string = "key1 key2 key3 key4 key5";

function urlX($location) {
        return $this->xURL($location).'/'.urlencode($this->keyword_string).'.html';
    }

How can I make it read 2 or even 3 variations of the keyword_string and randomize the html urlencode?

Answer 1

This will create truly random links. If you wish to have a set number of keyword_string sets (ie: keyword_string_1 = “key1 key2 key3”, keyword_string_2 = “key2 key3 key1”, etc…) and choose a random set to attach to each location, this method can be used on a more simple scale. There are probably several ways to speed this up as well.

$keyword_string = "key1 key2 key3 key4 key5";

function urlX($location) {
   global $keyword_string;
   $keyword_string = @explode(" ", $keyword_string);
   if(is_array($keyword_string)){
      $total = count($keyword_string);
      $random_keys = Array();
      for($i=0; $i<$total; $i++){
         $new = rand(0,$total-1);
         while(in_array($new,$random_keys)){
            $new = rand(0,$total-1);
         }
         array_push($random_keys, $new);
      }
   }
   $page = "";
   foreach($random_keys as $key){
      $page .= $keyword_string[$key] . " ";
   }

   return $location . "/" . urlencode(trim($page)) . ".html";

}

ADDED NEW:

Here’s the above code adapted to a set amount of random strings. You can pre-load additional strings and add them to the end of the $keyword_string Array.

$keyword_string_1 = "key1 key2 key3 key4 key5";
$keyword_string_2 = "key2 key3 key4 key5 key1";
$keyword_string_3 = "key3 key4 key5 key1 key2";

/// ADD MORE HERE IF YOU LIKE
$keyword_string = Array($keyword_string_1, $keyword_string_2, $keyword_string_3); 

function urlX($location) {
   global $keyword_string;
   if(is_array($keyword_string)){
      $total = count($keyword_string);
      $random_keys = Array();
      $page = $keyword_string[rand(0,$total-1)];
   }
   return $location . "/" . urlencode(trim($page)) . ".html";
}

print urlX("http://www.google.com"); /// SIMPLE CALL TO NEW FUNCTION urlX()

ADDED NEW:

$keyword_string_1 = "key1 key2 key3 key4 key5";
$keyword_string_2 = "key2 key3 key4 key5 key1";
$keyword_string_3 = "key3 key4 key5 key1 key2";

function urlX($location) {
global $keyword_string_1, $keyword_string_2, $keyword_string_3;    

    if($location == "http://www.url1.com"){ /// CHANGE THESE TO ACTUAL URLS
        return $location . "/" . urlencode($keyword_string_1) . ".html";
    }else if($location == "http://www.url2.com"){
        return $location . "/" . urlencode($keyword_string_2) . ".html";
    }else if($location == "http://www.url3.com"){
        return $location . "/" . urlencode($keyword_string_3) . ".html";
    }else{
        return false;
    }

}

print urlX("http://www.url1.com");