I am currently building a word toy for one of my new-media courses. While I can write my idea down, and imagine how to build it, I lack the PHP knowledge to actually do so.
here's what I want to do.
I want to create a page, that allows a user to input a large amount of text (think short story length) and submit it.
That submitted text will be outputted to a static page after parsing.
Within the parsing I want a few things to happen;
Every word, name or number is taken from the text and ran through a google search and then the first link that google provides will be turned into a link for that word on the outputted page.
The returned page then, is the same text that the user has submitted with every word turned into a keyword search result for that word.
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If anyone is interested in the concept, it's part of some research (and mucking about) that I am doing on the topic of electronic narrative. The idea that with printed material you have only access to the words on the page and your own understanding/notions/associations with them. With electronic text however, every word is capable of being only the tip of the iceberg for understanding the understanding/notions/associations that an entire world has with it.
I don't need the code written for me, but any help in knowing where to look for the above parsing actions would be really helpful and anyone who does write code or assist will be credited in the final project.
