RANDOM LETTERS

[designboy91]

ive been told to create an html file containing a textbox to enter numbers 0 to 6. This is to be posted to a php file. The number represents a guess for the amount of times a particular sequence of letters - ABC, will be randomly created...

I also have a specific request to create this php file. Can people help me out! 😃

Create a php file to generate a random 3 letter word with letters made up of A, B or C. Generate this 50 times and check if the random guess received from the html file is correct
1. receive the guess value and check that
- The value is between 0 & 6 and is a number – (by using the is_numeric( ) function)
2. then create 3 random numbers (each either 1, 2 or 3) using a for loop and rand function
- check the value of each number as they are created (using an if statement) to assign the
letter A for 1, B for 2, C for 3 to a letterstring variable
- add the letter to a wordstring variable each time (using string concatenation with .
[e.g. $wholename = $firstname . “ “ . $surname] - analagous to the way of
creating a running total of numbers within a for loop using $total = $total + $number; )
ending up with a wordstring variable made up of 3 letters in random order

3. Now create 50 different word strings using a for loop around the code for b2.
4. check the wordstring to see if “ABC” has been generated
   [ since it is random there are 27 different combinations of 3 letters that
   can be created: AAA, AAB, AAC,ABA, ABB, ABC, BAC,BBA,BBB,BBC,BCA,BCB,
   ACA,ACB,ACC,BAA,BAB, BCC,CAA,CAB,CAC,CBA,CBB,CBC,CCA,CCB,CCC ]
5. if “ABC” is created print “Found ABC string” & increment a count for ABC strings
6. print the guess value and the number of times the “ABC” sequence occurs
7. compare the guess with the actual number of times the “ABC” sequence occurs
8. print either “You have guessed correctly” or “Incorrect guess – try again!”
   depending on whether the guess matches the ABC count or not

thanks for all your help!!!!

[johanafm]

Sounds very much like a homework assignment. Is it?

And whether it is homework or not, what have you done so far?