Translation site

hearn

I'm working on making a site that will translate a given domain name into another "slang" language, such as taking a normal site and turning selected words found in a dictionary into say redneck slang.

Right now i'm having problems because the words I search for to replace can sometimes be within another word, or sometimes aren't translated because of the presence of a period, question mark, quotation mark, etc. This is the code I am currently using:

    while (!feof($handle)) {
        $buffer = fgets($handle, 4096);
        for ($a=0; $a<sizeof($yooper_find); $a++) {
            $output = preg_replace("/\b" . $yooper_find[$a] . "\b/", $yooper_replace[$a], $buffer);
        }
        echo $output;
    }

I know that part of my problem is because I am not properly using REGEX to do my replacements but I don't know it well enough and can someone give me a replacement way to use REGEX and exclude and include certain cases?

Other then that I was wondering if anyone knows a faster way to do this, because right now it takes forever.

Thanks in advance, sorry about the long message!

Muntjewerf

Using str_replace:

You can use arrays without using a for statement or whatever
Searching for a word with a questionmark attached to it is not a problem. (look at the example)
str_replace is faster than preg_replace. preg_replace is not needed here.

<?php
$string = "Ook zo nieuwsgierig naar de nieuwe Borsato? Kijk hoe je kans maakt op een gesigneerd exemplaar van Marco's DVDisc?";
$search = array("nieuwsgierig","Borsato","exemplaar","DVD");
$replace = array("benieuwd","Zeiker","blah","schijfie");
$string = str_replace($search,$replace, $string);
echo $string;

# output: Ook zo benieuwd naar de nieuwe Zeiker? Kijk hoe je kans maakt op een gesigneerd blah van Marco's schijfiedf?

?>

I hope this is of some use,

regards,
Yure

hearn

I'm going to have to use some sort of regex because that will still replace words within words. So say I search for "and" to replace with "yyy" and "random" appears within the text of a site then that will turn random into "ryyyom" which I don't want. I tried it and it worked great except for that problem.

Thanks a bunch.

Muntjewerf

Ok, I've got to get back to you about that, probably somewhere tomorrow. But maybe this is a solution, not the best I think....

If You search for the word 'and' as you say random becomes ryyyom. but when I put whitespaces before and after the search ' and ' It will only find the whole word 'and' and replace it with 'yyy'.

I will take a better look tomorrow, that is if your post is not yet resolved.

regards,

Yure