Same name in other branches

1. 5.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 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;
}