"Php Travesty Generator based on idea by Hugh Kenner and Joseph O'Rourke”
Running since 2010
//Variables
//Garbledness = the size of the order
//UserText = the supplied text to travesty
//Size = size of the output - will equal the origianl size if not specified.
//Offset = Pointer to the current end of the travesty
//Outputstring = starts with a string from the start of the text to be travestied the length of the variable Garbledness
$Garbledness = htmlspecialchars($_POST['garbledness']);
$Usertext = htmlspecialchars($_POST['usertext']);
$Size = htmlspecialchars($_POST['size']);
$Offset = 0;
$Outputstring = substr($Usertext,0,$Garbledness);
//Start loop to create the travesty
while($Offset < $Size)
{
//$Searchstring = the phrase we are hunting for in the text to be travestied.
$Searchstring = substr($Outputstring, $Offset, ($Offset + $Garbledness));
//Found string will contain a list of letters found after each occurance of $Searchstring
$Foundstring = "";
$Pos = 0;
while($Pos !== false)
{
if($Pos > (strlen($Usertext)-1))
$Pos = False;
else
$Pos=strpos($Usertext,$Searchstring,$Pos);
if($Pos !== false)
{
$Foundstring.=$Usertext[($Pos+$Garbledness)];
$Pos = $Pos+$Garbledness;
}
}
$Outputstring.=$Foundstring[mt_rand(0,strlen($Foundstring)-1)];
$Offset++;
}
echo '
'; echo ''; ?>
Travesty N='; echo $Garbledness; echo '
'; echo ''; ?>