So the other day, I finally came up with a new project for my web site.
I decided to create a little insult generator, based of the works of Shakespeare.
First decision, how to do it. There were several possible options including hard coding all the quotes (bad!) and making a database for the quotes. The database idea seemed more complex than necessary.
So, the quotes are in a small xml file. Easy to edit, portable content, no problems there.
The page uses PHP to read in the xml file, pick out a few lines via random numbers and spit them out to the page. So in less than a day, I had the new project coded up and some insults added. The main delay has been reading a couple of plays looking for the insults.
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