Legible word generator

[Gogeta70]

Hey guys, it's been forever since i've coded something, so i decided to make this. Tell me what you guys think... Taking suggestions!

Source

[Nerdz]

usrname and pws required.

[Gogeta70]

Oops, sorry.

user: beta
pass: tester

By the way, you can see it in action here: Link

[FrankB]

Congratulations.
There is no more to add.

Maybe, there's a shortcut for the arrays but i am not sure, at eye-view, just like that i cannot tell but here's the hint : multidimensional arrays.
Now, i cannot see immediately how you could force that through your code but still, it is a very good exercise and an example for many.

--
FrankB

[Nerdz]

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if(strlen($word) == $amt)
{
        $finished = TRUE;
}
else
{
        $finished = FALSE;
}

I don't know anything about php but if it works, I think this would be better:

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$finished = (strlen($word) == $amt);

I guess $finished is a bool and the condition return a bool to

I keep looking at the code... why don't u use this condition in the FOR? strlen($word) == $amt ... If WHILE exist in this case it would be more appropriate

[Gogeta70]

Well nerdz, it'd been about 3 or 4 months since i've coded something in PHP.

That line of code suggested would not work.

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for($finished = FALSE; $finished != TRUE;) //if the word length is > 8 characters, $ finished = false;
{
$tmp1 = count($letters[$last]['ok']) -1; //blah
$tmp2 = rand(0, $tmp1); // blah
$word .= $letters[$last]['ok'][$tmp2]; // blah
$last = $letters[$last]['ok'][$tmp2]; // blah

if(strlen($word) == $amt) // if $word is equal to 8 characters (specified in $amt, then $finished is true, else $finished is false.
{
$finished = TRUE;
}
else
{
$finished = FALSE;
}

}

That's what that part of code means.

[Nerdz]

I know what the code is doing... but i tought it would like other programming language where

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bool b;

while ( b == true)
{
      if ( conditionA)
            b = true;
       else
             b = false;
}

is the same as:

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while (conditionA)
{
   //do your code...
}

Sry maybe i'm a bit confuse

[Gogeta70]

Well i would include the if statement in the for, however it's got to set a variable depending on data, which takes more than 1 line of code.

for(set the variable; (the if); (the then))
{}

WHOA, i just kinda corrected myself. Now i see where you're coming from. I could do this:

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while(strlen($word) != $amt)
{
do code
}

Thanks for the heads up, nerdz.

[Nerdz]

No problem