{"id":13132,"date":"2015-03-04T05:01:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T18:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=13132"},"modified":"2015-03-04T05:01:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T18:01:50","slug":"php-target-word-game-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/php-target-word-game-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP Target Word Game Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PHP Target Word Game Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Meanwhile, back at the “word-games-trying-to-assist-ESL-students”<\/i> ranch …<\/p>\n

“Targ\u00e9t! Darn it Targ\u00e9t, where are ya? There’s chores to be done, Targ\u00e9t. Tar’ggggg\u00e9\u00e9\u00e9\u00e9\u00e9\u00e9\u00e9tttttt!”<\/i><\/p>\n

“Paw, did you come a calling, with an unsilent ‘t’ … when youse knows full well, Paw … that them thar ‘t’ is awful quiet when preceeded by a ‘\u00e9’ Paw, like?”<\/i><\/p>\n

“Son, think youse’ll find a ‘\u00e9’ aint nearly so goodly as an ‘\u00e9’, son.”<\/i><\/p>\n

“Y’know Paw, sometimes ar dunno git what youse on about, ‘specially regarding ‘t’ and ‘\u00e9’ … tho yo not bad at ‘b’ ‘n ‘g’ … but who aint? Ever since we’all changed my name to Targ\u00e9t you been acting kinda strang\u00e9 … and when ar say strang\u00e9, ar mean strang\u00e9 … aint that strang\u00e9?”<\/i><\/p>\n

“Strang\u00e9 aint the word for it, Targ\u00e9t. You just git busy providing that there word games on youse up yonder on ESL Ranch ridge, and never mind what your Pappy’s views on ‘t’ and ‘\u00e9’ are, y’hear.”<\/i><\/p>\n

“‘Fraid am bit short of h\u00e9aring th\u00e9r\u00e9, Paw … but how ’bout w\u00e9 ch\u00e9ck the rain m\u00e9t\u00e9r on that, next time on yonder ridg\u00e9?”<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some word and sentence games are not so good for ESL<\/a> students, such as our previous PHP Rhopalic Letter Sentence Game Mobile Friendly Tutorial<\/a> as shown below, perhaps, because the vocabulary resulting can be a bit far-fetched at times, so, today, the word game is a bit more traditional, and only calls on vocabulary the user already knows, and, hopefully, gets them recalling, or thinking about.<\/p>\n

Today’s word game we’re calling “Target Share Challenge”<\/i> and it is largely based around a quiz game called “Target” presented in The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> newspaper, except that we add email (snapshot) functionality and leave behind functionality saying what a good score would be. So that is the idea of a challenge, with snapshots of the game possible to challenge your friends and\/or (ESL) classmates. What follows are examples of the email link types …<\/p>\n