I am trying to make a game of hangman in php, where there a person is trying to guess the secret word. I am having trouble with it, I have the first part of the code done and will upload it as soon as I get back to my home computer. Im trying to get it so it loops the word and returns the right characters and records the characters I used.. I would appreciate any help.. Thanks

    try put the words in an array and count them then do a rand(1, $ammountOfWords); and then you can get the words but it would be better to be in javascript.

      bradmasterx wrote:

      but it would be better to be in javascript.

      But then I can view the page source and view the secret word in plain text.

      edit

      I would keep the secret word server side and use str_replace on the letters that have not been guessed, turning them into asterisks or something.

        I am doing an Array with a loop, to loop it through every letter and displaying the one that is right, the only problem is I am not quite sure how to do it, like i said i am a very novice coder who needs help. To top it off my dreamweaver is ****ed up so now I have to do it in a lab. Help would greatly relieve some stress.. Thanks guys

          Guys, this is really imporant.. I really need some help I would greatly appricate it....

            Hello,
            Just creates this on the fly and i am sure that this can be made a lot better...

            <?php 
session_start();
if($_GET['reset'] == 1){
unset($_SESSION['input']);
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Hang Man</title>
</head>

<body>
<form action="hang.php" method="post">
  Letter:
  <input name="letter" type="text" size="1" maxlength="1"/>
</form>

<?php 
$word = "h e l l o w o r l d";

if (!isset( $_SESSION['input'] ) ) { 
	$_SESSION['input'] = array();
	}

$_SESSION['input'][] = $_POST['letter'];

$word = explode(" ",$word);

foreach($word as $x){

if(in_array($x, $_SESSION['input'])){
echo $x;
}else{
echo " _ ";
}
}
?>
<p><a href="?reset=1">Reset</a></p>
</body>
</html>

            The only thing i could not do is split a word into an array, i had to enter the spaces manually. Any help would be handy 🙂

              benracer wrote:

              The only thing i could not do is split a word into an array

              A string is just an array of characters.

              You can access each letter by it's subscript.

              i.e.

              $word = 'hello world';
echo $word[0]; // prints h

              edit

              <?php
  $word = 'Hello World!';
  echo $word[0];

  echo '<br /><br />';

  $word_array = array();

  for($i = 0; $i < strlen($word); $i++)
    $word_array[] = $word[$i];

  print_r($word_array);

?>
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