Random Sentence script

I have the following simple script.

<?php
 
function rand_wrd($input){
if (!is_array($input)){
return preg_replace_callback('~\{(.+?)\}~', 'rand_wrd', $input);
} else {
$input = explode("|", $input[1]);
return $input[array_rand($input)];
}
}
 
//the text file containing the sentences....
$file = file('test.txt');
 
$file = array_map('rand_wrd', $file);
 
//display a random sentence...
echo $file[array_rand($file)];
 
?>

PHP:

With my text file being as such

I {love|like|need} {coffee|tea}.
He is {cool|nice|awesome} {.|..|!}
Are you {hungry|tired|angry}?

Code (markup):

Which is then outputted into <span class="random">(word) {insert randomly generated sentence}</span>

What I'm trying to achieve is to also randomly add {insert randomly generated sentence} after or before (word). Any ideas?

 

You mean you want it the text file to have:

{D3Tek|Chris Gwynne} is {cool|nice|awesome}

And then it would output something like:

Chris Gwynne is nice.

I think that's what you mean. I'll let you confirm before I code it for you though!

 

Sounds like you are looking for a recursive Spintax PHP class. I wrote an article on my blog with a class a while back, but the original source/author was up at http://ronaldarichardson.com/2011/09/23/recursive-php-spintax-class-3-0/

Hope it helps!