protected function DevelGenerateBase::randomSentenceOfLength in Devel 8.3
Same name and namespace in other branches
- 4.x 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 218  
Class
- DevelGenerateBase
 - Provides a base DevelGenerate plugin implementation.
 
Namespace
Drupal\devel_generateCode
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;
}