protected function DevelGenerateBase::randomSentenceOfLength in Devel 4.x

Same name and namespace in other branches

1. 8.3 devel_generate/src/DevelGenerateBase.php \Drupal\devel_generate\DevelGenerateBase::randomSentenceOfLength()

Generates a random sentence of specific length.

Words are randomly selected with length from 2 up to the optional parameter $max_word_length. The first word is capitalised. No ending period is added.

Parameters

int $sentence_length: The total length of the sentence, including the word-separating spaces.

int $max_word_length: (optional) Maximum length of each word. Defaults to 8.

Return value

string A sentence of the required length.

1 call to DevelGenerateBase::randomSentenceOfLength()

MenuDevelGenerate::generateMenus in devel_generate/src/Plugin/DevelGenerate/MenuDevelGenerate.php

Generates new menus.

File

devel_generate/src/DevelGenerateBase.php, line 219

Class

DevelGenerateBase

Provides a base DevelGenerate plugin implementation.

Namespace

Drupal\devel_generate

Code

protected function randomSentenceOfLength($sentence_length, $max_word_length = 8) {

  // Maximum word length cannot be longer than the sentence length.
  $max_word_length = min($sentence_length, $max_word_length);
  $words = [];
  $remainder = $sentence_length;
  do {
    if ($remainder <= $max_word_length) {

      // If near enough to the end then generate the exact length word to fit.
      $next_word = $remainder;
    }
    else {

      // Cannot fill the remaining space with one word, so choose a random
      // length, short enough for a following word of at least minimum length.
      $next_word = mt_rand(2, min($max_word_length, $remainder - 3));
    }
    $words[] = $this
      ->getRandom()
      ->word($next_word);
    $remainder = $remainder - $next_word - 1;
  } while ($remainder > 0);
  $sentence = ucfirst(implode(' ', $words));
  return $sentence;
}