This is a really simple/weird text generation/replacement thing.
Take a sentence formula like this:
Hey there __name__, how do you feel about __thing__?
And a corpus of words to replace those __node__ things:
name: Nick, Donald, George
thing: pokemon, the 2016 election, cats, 1998
And then you mash it all together to get something like:
Hey there Nick, how do you feel about 1998?
Or any other random permutation of the above possible words.
Weird, huh? You can get pretty crazy with it.
Put the Cylesoft folder with your PHP codes, and then:
require_once 'Cylesoft/TextGen1000/Generator.php';That's it.
Check out the usage.php file, it has a lot more details on how to use this.
This was inspired by the tracery javascript library.
This is basically a complicated wrapper around preg_replace_callback(), I know.
There's also basically no performance improvements made here. It's pretty raw.
- Compound sentences; use the result of one generator within others.
- More modifiers; the starting 3 (uppercase, lowercase, capitalize) are not good enough