[RESOLVED] Can this be done with php?

[e-man]

Here's what I would like to do: take a string consisting of say three words, have them all uppercase, spaces removed and all three of them in a different tect color of my choosing.
e.g. "My Funky String" ---->MYFUNKYSTRING

I know php has built-in string functions for the uppercase and space removal but how would I go about setting the text colors? (preferably with some CSS, inline if need be)

[planetsim]

Yes its possible. Firstly Id get the words into an Array (getting rid of the spaces) randomize a set of predefined colours, now to do this you must loop the results that are in the Array and use <span> or however you wish to do it.

So here is one way to do it

<?php

$words = "My Funky String";
$wordList = explode(" ", $words);
$wordListSize = sizeof($wordList);

$colour = array("#ff0000", "#3333ff", "#ffff66", "#ff9966", "#009966");
$rand_keys = array_rand($colour, $wordListSize);

for ($i = 0; $i < $wordListSize; $i++)
    $wordList[$i] = '<span style="color: '.$colour[$rand_keys[$i]].'">'.strtoupper($wordList[$i]).'</span>';

echo implode("", $wordList);

?>

Its not perfect but it does work.

[Matt_Kindig]

Assume you have three classes, color1, color2, and color3, each with a different color in the CSS file. This should work:
<?php
$someString="My Funky String";
$stringArray = explode(" ", strtoupper($someString) );
$counter=1;
foreach ( $stringArray as $word) {
print '<span class="color' . $counter . '">' . $word . '</span>';
$counter++;
}
?>

[bradgrafelman]

To expand upon Matt Kindig's code, you could also loop through a certain number of CSS styles, i.e. "color1 color2 color3 color1 color2" and so on, by doing something like this:

<?php 
$someString='My Funky String';
$styles = array('color1', 'color2', 'etc');
$stringArray = explode(' ', strtoupper($someString)); 

for($i=0,$stylenum=0; $stringArray[$i]; $i++) {

 print '<span class="' . $styles[$stylenum] . '">' . $stringArray[$i] . '</span>'; 

 if($stylenum < count($styles))
      $stylenum++;
 else
      $stylenum = 0;
} 
?>

[e-man]

Gentlemen, thanks for setting me on the path to enlightenment 😃

[bradgrafelman]

Glad we could help.

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