{"id":15769,"date":"2016-01-11T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=15769"},"modified":"2016-02-13T12:58:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T02:58:50","slug":"php-ictogram-word-decoding-game-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/php-ictogram-word-decoding-game-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP Pictogram Word Decoding Game Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/PHP\/decodepictowords.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"PHP Pictogram Word Decoding Game Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/PHP\/decodepictowords.jpg\" title=\"PHP Pictogram Word Decoding Game Primer Tutorial\" id='iiohc' onmouseover=\" this.src=this.src.replace('.jpg', '.xpng').replace('.png', '.xjpg').replace('.x', '.');   \"    \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHP Pictogram Word Decoding Game Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In ancient Egyptian times writing took the form of <a target=_blank title='Egyptian hieroglyphics information from Wikipedia ... thanks' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Egyptian_hieroglyphs'>hieroglyphics<\/a> often on papyrus and wood.  This form of writing was both logographic (a grapheme which represents a word) and alphabetic.  We humans process pictorial input representing concepts quite well.<\/p>\n<p>Today, though, we place pictures (or pictograms) to represent individual letters of words, but, unlike hieroglyphics, these pictograms have no real relationship to what they represent &#8230; it is your job to decode these English words.<\/p>\n<p>To do the decoding you&#8217;ll need to call on your instincts and experience of the patterns of letters in words, especially looking for &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>repeated letters<\/li>\n<li>likely prefixes<\/li>\n<li>likely suffixes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; unfortunately the 6 words presented have no relationship to each other and there are no short words to help, but sometimes you get given one letter that is filled in for you.<\/p>\n<p>The pictograms are presented in the HTML via unicode syntax and here are some good links below regarding this &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=_blank href='https:\/\/en.wikibooks.org\/wiki\/Unicode\/List_of_useful_symbols' title='Unicode\/List of useful symbols'>Unicode\/List of useful symbols<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=_blank href='http:\/\/apps.timwhitlock.info\/emoji\/tables\/unicode' title='Emoji Unicode Tables'>Emoji Unicode Tables<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is the PHP source code you could call <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/PHP\/decodepictowords.php_GETME\" title='decodepictowords.php'>decodepictowords.php<\/a> for a <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/PHP\/decodepictowords.php\" title='click picture'>live run<\/a> &#8230; happy decoding!<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d15769' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d15769\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?tag=decode\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d15769' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In ancient Egyptian times writing took the form of hieroglyphics often on papyrus and wood. 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