Make A Random Word Generator

I found this Internet Argument Generator here.

Press escape to form an opinion about something:

After refreshing and pressing escape a few times I was curious to see the entire word list so that I didn’t have to hit refresh and escape like some monkey. I looked at the page source and was suprised that there wasn’t one or several files filled with words— they’re GIF files!

Amazing.

I made a metal band name generator some time ago and also a word generator that uses any letters you type in to form a word (this was to help me cheat at Yahoo Literati/Scrabble).

This is the good thing about technology– you can use it to make things that are useful (or not useful) to make your life easier or have a few laughs.

I made the scrabble cheat tool  because I was too cheap to buy this program I was using and my trial period had ended and I figured I could make it in about 20 mins and save the money.

For the first word of my metal band name generator I used calendar months, bad ass words like ‘violent’  and ’sword’ and for the second word I used abstract nouns that sound scary like ‘descent’, ‘purgatory’  etc.

Click it your band name might be:

January Descent or Poison Purgatory. Not bad names.

If you want to make a random word generator for your site open up a notepad file and make one called “randomgenerator.php” or whatever  name you like.

Make a few text files and fill them with words that you think will make an interesting combination.  Name those however you want (in the example below I used word1-3 and saved them as txt files in the directory.

The code in your namegenerator.php file might look like this (if this is busch league and you know a shorter way please comment):


$files = array('word1.txt', 'word2.txt', 'word3.txt');

$delim = “\n”;
foreach($files as $wordfile){
$i++;
if($i == 3){
print ” – “;
}else{
print ” “;
}
$fp = fopen($wordfile, “r”);
$contents = fread($fp, filesize($wordfile));
$word_arr = explode($delim,$contents);
fclose($fp);
srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
$word_index = (rand(1, sizeof($word_arr)) – 1);
$hereword= $word_arr[$word_index];
echo $hereword;

}
?>

You'll just need to use the include statement to drop these into your page. Something like this:

>? include("randomgenerator.php"); ?>

You can then use this piece of javascript to refresh the page:

Click to refresh the page

Or yanno.. you can just put a link to that page with the anchor text "click here to refresh"--- nobody will know the difference.

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Reader's Comments

1. 

   this is busch league and I know a shorter way

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2. Tom on 13 Feb 2009 7:57 am
3. 

   damnit tom don’t start with me today

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4. misanthropy today on 13 Feb 2009 11:22 am