$word = "superman";
I would like to be able to randomly choose 2 letters from what ever word is in $word and build a fill in the blank box for me to be able to answer
example some how random picks the p and the a su_erm_n comes up so I would fill in the first box with p and the second one with a I guess with a form
$wordfinished = "su" . $fillinblank1 . "erm" . $fillinblank2 . "n";
if ($wordfinshed == $word) {
echo "congrats";
}
else{
echo "try again";
}
I am just learning php I have some things that I have done that are very complicated but was having a hard time with the random stuff any help would help me learn this
You can use PHP's rand() function to select a random number from 0 to the length of the word you are modifying and change the character at that index to something else
For example:
$str = "superman";
$str[rand(0, strlen($str)-1)] = "_";
Assuming that the rand() function output a value of 3 for example, we'd end up with this output:
sup_rman
We can put this in a function that can be called more than once in order to make more than one blank space in the word:
function addBlank($str){
do{
$index = rand(0, strlen($str)-1);
$tmp = $str[$index];
$str[$index] = "_";
} while($tmp =! "_");
return $str;
}
This function accepts a string and after each call will replace a letter in the string with _. Each call will result in one more blank space. The variable $tmp holds the value of the string at the randomly chosen index and checks that it wasn't already a blank space, and if it was, it picks another index to try to replace.
So to put this in practice, we can call the above function multiple times and store the result back into a variable, here is example output:
$str = addBlank("superman");
//the value of $str is now sup_rman
$str = addBlank($str)
//the value of $str is now sup_r_an
$word = "superman";
$size = strlen($word) -1;
$fillinblank1 = $word[rand(0,$size)];
$fillinblank2 = $word[rand(0,$size)];
$wordfinished = "su" . $fillinblank1 . "erm" . $fillinblank2 . "n";
echo $wordfinished;
Output:
sueermun
Demo