{"id":6490,"date":"2014-02-20T05:06:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T18:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=6490"},"modified":"2014-02-20T05:06:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T18:06:20","slug":"phpjavascript-words-within-words-game-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/phpjavascript-words-within-words-game-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP\/Javascript Words Within Words Game Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PHP\/Javascript Words Within Words Game Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Do you like word games? Today’s game takes a randomly generated word and asks you to make as many words from its letters as you can that are 4 or more characters long and are not the original word … we’re going to call the game “Words Within Words”<\/i> … and you score a point for each letter used in your list of valid words generated as a result. It uses English words, based on the dictionary arrangements at its (web) server. Maybe it would be a good game to learn English vocabulary.<\/p>\n

Programmers often use Linux dictionary files<\/a> as a means to get a word list, and that list could be in any language, and for ours it is English, so to make it for another language, change the code inside the file_get_contents() call in wordswithinwords.php<\/a><\/p>\n

This game<\/a> has two parts to it for PHP and Javascript to respectively get (and assess) a word to use and arrange the user interaction.<\/p>\n

Hopefully you can figure the rules when you click the picture above for a live run<\/a>, but if it is not clear it has similarities to the “Target”<\/i> word game<\/a> of the Sydney Morning Herald.<\/p>\n

Thank you to The Free Dictionary<\/a> for its great online presence as a dictionary resource, for the functionality to optionally explain a word’s dictionary meaning. The image map “click parts of the picture” vocabulary ESL tutorials<\/a> at this blog use the same resource to explain dictionary information about clicked on “things”.<\/p>\n

Anyway, see how you go with this game of logic and tactics!<\/p>\n

Here is a link to some downloadable PHP (with Javascript) programming code you could rename to wordswithinwords.php<\/a><\/p>\n

If this was interesting you may be interested in this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n