unscramble

[serial]

hi all is there any function that could unscramble word i have 2 files 1 with scambled letters of a word but they change every 2 seconds and then i have a file with the correct words and i just wondered if there was a function to do this

 

[Orio]

I once wanted to make an anagram solver (that unscrambles letters into words) but I never actually made it because I didn't have a word list.

 

This my idea (it worked on a small word list with 1000 words, there shouldn't be a problem to do it with a bigger list):

Take a word list. Make a table with the columns- word, sort.

For every word, enter the word into the "word" column, and in the sort column enter the word when it's letters are sorted alphabetically (see the function attached).

Now, every time you want to unscramble a bunch of letters, you pass then through the function attached, and search in the database for the words that their sort is the sort you made ("SELECT * FROM `table` WHERE sort='$sort'").

And that's it

 

The function:

<?php
//This requires php5

function word_sort($word)
{
$letters = str_split($word);
sort($letters);
return implode("",$letters);
}

?>

 

 

I hope I've helped

Orio.

[serial]

i didn't really want to make a database really as it is only 50 words long i have the 50 words in a .txt file and then i open the scambled file which chooses 20 scambled word out of the 50 (which are the 50 states). i just wondered if i could do it like that

[serial]

*bump*

[per1os]

<?php
$file = file('50states.txt'); // make sure your words are on seperate lines this returns an array
$scrambled = file('scrambled.txt'); // same deal as above

......


?>

 

After that I am not sure what you are asking, do you want to match the scrambled words to the one of the 50 state words?

 

--FrosT

 

 

 

[serial]

ok what i want is to open a file (scrambled.txt) which will have 20 scrambled states eg.

 

wnekroy

oiho

and i want open another file(unscramled.txt which have all the word that are not scramled) to unscramble them and print them out like this:

 

newyork:ohio:

 

thanks in advance

[Orio]

As I suggested...

 

<?php
//This requires php5
function word_sort($word)
{
$letters = str_split($word);
sort($letters);
return implode("",$letters);
}


$scrambled = file("scrambled.txt");
$unscrambled = file("states.txt");
foreach ($scrambled as $w)
{
foreach($unscrambled as $w2)
{
	if(word_sort(trim($w)) == word_sort(trim($w2)))
		echo $w." is ".$w2."<br>";
}
}

?>

 

 

Orio.

[serial]

thank you very much orio and thanks all thats great

 

btw orio your site looks pritty good