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Tim

12-12-2004, 07:13 PM

I made this PHP script, It's kind of like a Magic Eight Ball. You ask it a question, and it replies randomly out of 15. The cool part about it is: It know's if you're asking a question that doesn't have a yes or no answer to it. You can see it "in-action" at http://www.tm-software.uni.cc/scripts/magic.php and the source in PHP->Examples of my website( http://tm-software.uni.cc/ ) It's not really useful for any serious website, but it's fun to play around with and learn from.

Have fun, and tell me what you think :)

Edit: Spelling.

shwaza

12-12-2004, 07:18 PM

hehe, that's pretty cool, you could probably do that with javascript as well except for the yes or no stuff.

Loser

12-12-2004, 07:23 PM

Hey, it knew the answer!
"Am I a loser?"
"Definately."

shwaza

12-12-2004, 09:34 PM

Originally posted by Loser@Dec 12 2004, 05:23 PM
Hey, it knew the answer!
"Am I a loser?"
"Definately."
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Lol, tim you're program's a genious!

Tim

12-12-2004, 09:52 PM

Apparently, it's not:

I said: Are you a genius?
It replied: Absoloutely Not.

:P

Soldier00

12-12-2004, 10:39 PM

hmm tim this is what i get for asking : Please ask a complete yes or no question so ur theory about yes or no is not true..

Tim

12-13-2004, 12:03 AM

What question did you ask it?

undacuvabruva

12-13-2004, 02:52 AM

How does it know what a yes or no question is?
I'm confused.

Loser

12-13-2004, 01:04 PM

Undacuvabruva, it takes out a certain word, like "Am" and answers with a random answer from answers made to "am", I believe.

Tim

12-13-2004, 07:11 PM

Originally posted by Loser@Dec 13 2004, 10:04 AM
Undacuvabruva, it takes out a certain word, like "Am" and answers with a random answer from answers made to "am", I believe.
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Not exactly. It checks if the sentence begins with "is", "was", "were", "will", "could", "should", "are", "did", "am", "can", or "do" (I tried to think of what words a yes or know question would start with) If it does, it picks a random number out of 7, and then if it is 1-3 it will answer yes, 4-6 is will answer no, and 7 will answer try again. It picks random out of 5 for yes no and try again replies.

:)

mck9235

12-13-2004, 10:53 PM

Thats pretty nifty, nice work. :)

reid315

12-14-2004, 01:45 AM

Tim, thanks for ruining the magic of the Magic Server ;)

starmena3

12-14-2004, 02:07 AM

ok so this is how it works. I just thought it picked out the Usual 5 W's and the H: Who, What, Where, When, Why, How. and is this all PHP? how did you make this? or what did you use to make this?

doltlord

12-14-2004, 02:12 AM

"Area 51 has how many chairs?"
"My sources say no."

lol. Might want to fix that. :)

reid315

12-14-2004, 02:40 AM

are you using the isset() funtion? I think it's picking up just ARE and AREA or AREN't and all the like

starmena3

12-14-2004, 02:48 AM

hey nobody's perfect and I think it's a good enough program to have fun with. its not like its a competition were the winner gets money :P but i still wanna know how he did this

geek

12-14-2004, 03:24 AM

pretty crazy. how long did it take to make? you must've been bored. :P

Tim

12-14-2004, 07:38 PM

Originally posted by doltlord+Dec 13 2004, 11:12 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(doltlord @ Dec 13 2004, 11:12 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>"Area 51 has how many chairs?"
"My sources say no."

lol. Might want to fix that. :)
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I guess I should. Or maybe you should ;)

Originally posted by reid315@Dec 13 2004, 11:40 PM
are you using the isset() funtion? I think it's picking up just ARE and AREA or AREN't and all the like
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Not the isset function. I'm checking the length of the total string to the length of the stristr() length... Go look at the souce :)

<!--QuoteBegin-geek@Dec 14 2004, 12:24 AM
pretty crazy. how long did it take to make? you must've been bored. :P
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Actually it only took me about 15 minutes :P

starmena3

12-14-2004, 07:42 PM

wow !15 minutes! can I use this code for my website? :D I like this game its really good. I find it better than those over there at those kids site and things like that

Tim

12-14-2004, 08:49 PM

Thanks :) Of course you can use it. Take credit for it if you want... :P

abrie

12-16-2004, 05:53 PM

Wow thats pretty cool. I tried to fool it but i couldn't. Well... not exactly, unless I asked something like: State, by means of yes or no, whether this is a yes or no question.

But i guess its only me who would ask someting like that... :lol: :lol:

mahangee

12-16-2004, 06:17 PM

Originally posted by Tim@Dec 12 2004, 08:13 PM
I made this PHP script, It's kind of like a Magic Eight Ball. You ask it a question, and it replies randomly out of 15. The cool part about it is: It know's if you're asking a question that doesn't have a yes or no answer to it. You can see it "in-action" at http://www.tm-software.uni.cc/scripts/magic.php and the source in PHP->Examples of my website( http://tm-software.uni.cc/ ) It's not really useful for any serious website, but it's fun to play around with and learn from.

Have fun, and tell me what you think :)

Edit: Spelling.
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Hey Tim PHP you know your examples section with , I would recommend that you use highlight_string() to make you examples easy to read. :D Just a suggestion other than that pretty good. :D

Tim

12-16-2004, 08:03 PM

Originally posted by mahangee@Dec 16 2004, 03:17 PM
Hey Tim PHP you know your examples section with , I would recommend that you use highlight_string() to make you examples easy to read. :D Just a suggestion other than that pretty good. :D
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That's not a bad idea. I think I'll try it :)