Preg_match help

[ryanfilard]

I am trying to make a chat bot with preg_match but how would I go about scanning a sentence for hello, hi, and how are you?

[.josh]

you don't need preg_match for this, you can use stripos

[ManiacDan]

You also probably shouldn't be making a chat bot in PHP unless the rest of the system is also  PHP.

[.josh]

hey now, I made an irc bot in php!

[ManiacDan]

hey now, I made an irc bot in php!

Yes, you're out of your mind, this is common knowledge.

 

Why did you choose PHP instead of Perl?  Most IRC bots I've used are Perl based.  Chat parsing is kind of why Perl exists.

[.josh]

Because this is phpfreaks, not perlfreaks. Though admittedly the latter rolls of the tongue better...

[hakimserwa]

whats his problem

[Pikachu2000]

whats his problem

 

What is whose problem?

[ryanfilard]

I like a challenge so I choose PHP.

[ManiacDan]

Because this is phpfreaks, not perlfreaks. Though admittedly the latter rolls of the tongue better...

Fair enough!  I do a lot of text parsing in PHP (web spiders, mostly), but for some reason I would never use it for something like a chat bot.  I always fall back to perl, even though I write my spiders in PHP.