Okay I am trying to create a boss kill log for a game that I play(Runescape). I found on the internet that the developers were gracious enough to have an api with an adventure's log that logs different activities you do in game, bossing is one of em. So I got the info into a multidimensional array structured as so:
Array
(
[magic] => 5379429
[questsstarted] => 5
[totalskill] => 2333
[questscomplete] => 134
[questsnotstarted] => 95
[totalxp] => 163169890
[ranged] => 18656921
[activities] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[date] => 17-Dec-2017 21:51
[details] => I killed 8 graceful followers of Armadyl, all called Kree'arra. The gods have little imagination for names.
[text] => I killed 8 Kree'arras.
etc
.
.
)
The above array isn't the whole array I shortened it to not make this too long because it is a big array. What I am trying to do is only get the values that say "I killed x boss", in this case the boss would be Kree'arra. What's got me stumped is that the string contains a number that changes, like so:
"I killed 5 kree'arras"
"I killed 3 kree'arras"
so I cant use an if statement because I would never know the exact string to use the comparison operator. I tried using array_search('I killed', array_column($runemetrics, 'text')), but got a blank screen. I tried a bunch of answers that I found on stackoverflow, but either I got a blank screen or it was partially what I wanted. I am thinking this is a simple solution. Here is my code:
$get_runemetrics = file_get_contents("https://apps.runescape.com/runemetrics/profile/profile?user=Thee_Newb&activities=20");
$runemetrics = json_decode($get_runemetrics, true);
if(isset($runemetrics["activities"]) === TRUE){
for($i = 0; $i < count($runemetrics["activities"]); $i++){
echo $runemetrics["activities"][$i]["text"];
}
}
EDIT: I forgot to mention that the boss changes too
You can use strpos() to check if text has 'I killed' string
for($i = 0; $i < count($runemetrics["activities"]); $i++){
$text = $runemetrics["activities"][$i]["text"];
if (strpos($text, 'I killed') > -1) {
echo $text . '<br>';
}
}
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I came across this program on http://www.programmr.com . And the question is
Complete the program to print the sum of negative numbers, positive even numbers, positive odd numbers from a list of numbers entered by the user. The list terminates when the number entered is zero . And my code is,
$nums = array();
while(trim(fgets(STDIN)) != 0){
array_push($nums,trim(fgets(STDIN)));
}
I know the code is incomplete but what im trying to do is to push the inputs to the array and then calculate the sum. When I print_r($nums) the array it gives me this,
Array
(
[0] => 34
[1] => 32
[2] => 45
[3] => 0
)
And my input is,
12
34
12
32
12
45
12
0
0
It pushes the alternative elements i dont know whats happening with this. Please help me , thanks in advance.
You are calling fgets(STDIN) twice in your code, i have adjusted it a bit so the array part is working. The rest of the assignment i let you figure that part out ;) Hint: Use modulus operator.
$nums = array();
do {
$number = (int) trim(fgets(STDIN));
array_push($nums,$number);
} while ($number !== 0);
print_r($nums);
Also if you are using PHP5.6 or higher you can use short array syntax like so:
$nums = [];
And
$nums[] = $number;
I have created a function which randomly generates a phrase from a hardcoded list of words. I have a function get_words() which has a string of hardcoded words, which it turns into an array then shuffles and returns.
get_words() is called by generate_random_phrase(), which iterates through get_words() n times, and on every iteration concatenates the n word into the final phrase which is destined to be returned to the user.
My problem is, for some reason PHP keeps giving me inconsistent results. It does give me words which are randomized, but it gives inconsistent number of words. I specify 4 words as the default and it gives me phrases ranging from 1-4 words instead of 4. This program is so simple it is almost unbelievable I can't pinpoint the exact issue. It seems like the broken link in the chain is the $words array which is being indexed, it seems like for some reason sometimes the indexing fails. I am unfamiliar with PHP, can someone explain this to me?
<?php
function generate_random_phrase() {
$words = get_words();
$number_of_words = get_word_count();
$phrase = "";
$symbols = "!##$%^&*()";
echo print_r($phrase);
for ($i = 0;$i < $number_of_words;$i++) {
$phrase .= " ".$words[$i];
}
if (isset($_POST['include_numbers']))
$phrase = $phrase.rand(0, 9);
if (isset($_POST['include_symbols']))
$phrase = $phrase.$symbols[rand(0, 9)];
return $phrase;
}
function get_word_count() {
if ($_POST['word_count'] < 1 || $_POST['word_count'] > 9)
$word_count = 4; #default
else
$word_count = $_POST['word_count'];
return $word_count;
}
function get_words() {
$BASE_WORDS = "my sentence really hope you
like narwhales bacon at midnight but only
ferver where can paper laptops spoon door knobs
head phones watches barbeque not say";
$words = explode(' ', $BASE_WORDS);
shuffle($words);
return $words;
}
?>
In $BASE_WORDS your tabs and new lines are occupying a space in the exploded array that's why. Remove the newlines and tabs and it'll generate the correct answer. Ie:
$BASE_WORDS = "my sentence really hope you like narwhales bacon at midnight but only ferver where can paper laptops spoon door knobs head phones watches barbeque not say";
Your function seems a bit inconsistent since you also include spaces inside the array, thats why when you included them, you include them in your loop, which seems to be 5 words (4 real words with one space index) is not really correct. You could just filter spaces also first, including whitespaces.
Here is the visual representation of what I mean:
Array
(
[0] => // hello im a whitespace, i should not be in here since im not really a word
[1] => but
[2] =>
[3] => bacon
[4] => spoon
[5] => head
[6] => barbeque
[7] =>
[8] =>
[9] => sentence
[10] => door
[11] => you
[12] =>
[13] => watches
[14] => really
[15] => midnight
[16] =>
So when you loop it, you include spaces, in this case. If you got a number of words of 5, you really dont get those 5 words, index 0 - 4 it will look like you only got 3 (1 => but, 3 => bacon, 4 => spoon).
Here is a modified version:
function generate_random_phrase() {
$words = get_words();
$number_of_words = get_word_count();
$phrase = "";
$symbols = "!##$%^&*()";
$words = array_filter(array_map('trim', $words)); // filter empty words
$phrase = implode(' ', array_slice($words, 0, $number_of_words)); // no need for a loop
// this simply gets the array from the first until the desired number of words (0,5 or 0,9 whatever)
// and then implode, just glues all the words with space
// so this ensure its always according to how many words you want
if (isset($_POST['include_numbers']))
$phrase = $phrase.rand(0, 9);
if (isset($_POST['include_symbols']))
$phrase = $phrase.$symbols[rand(0, 9)];
return $phrase;
}
Inconsistent spacing in your words list is the issue.
Here is a fix:
function get_words() {
$BASE_WORDS = "my|sentence|really|hope|you|
|like|narwhales|bacon|at|midnight|but|only|
|ferver|where|can|paper|laptops|spoon|door|knobs|
|head|phones|watches|barbeque|not|say";
$words = explode('|', $BASE_WORDS);
shuffle($words);
return $words;
}
I am trying to count how many hits I have on my site each hour, but am not sure how to approach this.
Here is what i have now:
if($cacheAvailable == true){ // WE GOT A CACHE
date_default_timezone_set("UTC");
$thisHour = date("H", time());
$moveStats = $memcache->get('moveStats');
if(!$moveStats){
$todayStats = array(array(hour => $thisHour, hits => 1, executetime => $total_time));
$memcache->set('moveStats', $todayStats);
}
foreach ($moveStats as $k => $v) {
if($v['hour'] == $thisHour){
$moveStats[$k]['hits']=$moveStats[$k]['hits']+1;
}
}
$memcache->set('moveStats', $moveStats);
echo '<pre>';
print_r($moveStats);
echo '</pre>';
}
This makes an array like this:
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[hour] => 18
[hits] => 6
[executetime] => 0
)
)
//##### EDIT ######//
I am able to add to the current hour but I don't know how to add a new hour when the clock turns into the new hour?
Hoping for help and thanks in advance.
You just have to check if that index already exists, if not create a new one, and always increase the old value:
$todayStats = $moveStats;
if (!isset($todayStats [$thisHour])) {
$todayStats[$thisHour] = 0;
}
$todayStats[$thisHour]['hits']++;
$todayStats[$thisHour]['executetime'] = $total_time;
But you have some other problems in your implementation:
- Don't use string without quotes. That will try to call a constant with that name and only as fallback return the string itself. It also raises a notice.
- $thisHour won't contain the current hour. If you really want to have the hour try: date('H') only.
I want to construct an array of 3 offers that output in a random order. I have the following code and whilst it does output 3 random offers it doesn't appear to be random. The first value in the generated array always seems to be from the 1st 2 records in my offers table. The offers table only has 5 records in it (I dont know if this is affecting things).
$arrayOfferCount = $offerCount-1;
$displayThisManyOffers = 3;
$range = range(0, $arrayOfferCount);
$vals = array_rand($range, $displayThisManyOffers);`
Any help or advice would be appreciated.
Working fine here. Benchmark it over lots of runs instead of just gut feeling... here it is for 1,000 tries:
<?php
$offerCount = 5;
$arrayOfferCount = $offerCount-1;
$displayThisManyOffers = 3;
$range = range(0, $arrayOfferCount);
for($i = 0; $i < 1000; $i++) {
$vals = array_rand($range, $displayThisManyOffers);
foreach($vals as $val) {
$counts[$val]++;
}
}
sort($counts);
print_r($counts);
Generates:
Array
(
[0] => 583
[1] => 591
[2] => 591
[3] => 610
[4] => 625
)
I know that mt_rand() is much better PRNG.
However, in your case you need to let the database select them for you
SELECT * FROM ads ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 0, 3
It is probably randomly picking which to display, but displaying them in the same order they appear in your array. If you do it enough times (~20) you should get the third one to show up once if this is the case (chances of choosing exactly the last 3 out of 5 would be 1 in 5*4, so around every 20th one you'll see the third option appear).
array_rand seems not to work properly sometimes (see PHP-Manual comments).
Workaround: Get the array size and pick a random index using the function mt_rand
I have an array of street names sorted alphabetically that I have gathered from a web service. This array exists on the server side.
On the client side, a user starts typing the name of the street he lives on and AJAX is used to return a list of the closest match to the partial street name, plus the next 9 street names in the array (the list is updated while he is typing).
For example, if the user typed "al", I would expect the results to be something like the following:
Albany Hwy
Albens Vale
Alcaston Rd
Alex Wood Dr
Alice Rd
Allawah Ct
Allen Rd
Alloway Pl
Allwood Av
Alola St
Amanda Dr
This is my try at it:
$matches = array();
for($i = 0; $i < count($streetNames); $i++)
{
if( (stripos($streetNames, $input) === 0 && count($matches) == 0) || count($matches) < 10 ){
$matches[] = $streetNames[$i];
} else {
break;
}
}
Does anyone else know a faster way?
Please note: I have no control over how this list is obtained from the database - it's from an external web service.
Use preg_grep():
$matches = preg_grep('/al/', $streetNames);
Note: this method like yours will be a brute force search. If you're searching a huge list of names (hundreds of thousands) or searching a huge number of times then you may need something better. For small data sets this is fine however.
The only way to get faster than looking through all the strings would be to have a data structure optimized for this kind of thing, a trie. You may not have control over what the webservice gives you, but if you can cache the result on your server and reuse it for serving many requests, then building a trie and using that would be much faster.
I think what you're looking for is preg_grep()
You can search either for elements starting with the input text:
$result = preg_grep('/^$input/', $streetNames);
or for elements that contain the text in any place:
$result = preg_grep('/$input/', $streetNames);
or you can also anchor the search to the end but that doesn't look so useful
Can't really tell if it is faster, but this is my version of it.
$input = 'al';
$matches = array_filter($streetNames, create_function('$v','return (stripos($v,'.$input.') !== false ? true : false);'));
$weight = array_map(create_function('$v','return array($v,levenshtein('.$input.',$v));'),$matches);
uasort($weight, create_function('$a,$b', 'if ($a[1] == $b[1]) {return 0;} return ($a[1] < $b[1]) ? -1 : 1;'));
$weight = array_slice($weight, 0, 10);
This creates a weighted list of matches. They are sorted according to the distance between the input string and the street name. 0 represents a true match.
Resulting array looks like this
array (
0 =>
array (
0 => 'Alola St',
1 => 7,
),
1 =>
array (
0 => 'Allen Rd',
1 => 7,
)
)
Where 0 => street name and 1 => levenshtein distance