web development / code challenge

[Abnaxus]

At your place MI, I'd do a class with everything you need, and so if I need to change something on an object, I'd just make/call a method. :p

This way, you can generate your page through objects.
And so if they change, the page will also change.

I'm a bit rusty with PHP, but I think it's kinda easy to do so.

[THeDoGG]

THeDoGG, my advise is that do not try to make a function to generate unique description. Such things are not flexible and will cause even more trouble. For example:

1. What if you need to specifically change a description for whatever reason in the future?
2. What if you need to search within your nonsense description for whatever reason?
3. What if a description is really really crappy and you want to refresh it?

If it was me, I would create a totally random generating function and insert the output in the database. That way everything would be in my control.

Well, what you suggest is what I already done actually, generating description and writting them in the DB !
But now I have to do it again for new items ! Which is a pain, I need to get sure to not override existing ones. Maybe I should get better in SQL scripts skills tho

About the points you mentionned, I will not have to change a spefiic description!
Im treating millions of items, I can't take care of them individually.
And most of the result are actually giving "senseful" descriptions Thats magic !

@Abnaxus:
Lets talk in french when we meet in #AG, gonna be easier
Btw its not PHP but Ruby !


@Impossible
Seems like a good function! But didnt find it for ruby