Overview

A Diastic Machine is a poetry algorithm create by Jackson MacLinks to an external site..

The big picture:

A file of text $($a story or something$)$ is used to grab words from

A seed phrase is used to determine which words are pulled from the document

A poem is generated

Example:

Seed Phrase: "magic show"

The first line of the poem is based on the word "magic"

The second line of the poem is based on the word "show"

Possible Output:

Line $1$: My was beg register stances

Line $2$: suppose Then whose showed

Notice that on line one, The first letter of the first word is the same as the first letter of the seed word, magic $("$M$").$

The second letter of the second word is the same as the second letter of the first seed word, magic $("$A$")$

$...$ and so on for each letter of the first seed word

Line $2$ follows the same pattern for the second word, show

If there were a third word in the seed phrase, then the third line would follow the same pattern with the third word

$...$ and so on for every word in the seed phrase

Related Lectures

Bonus Lecture #$3$: Building a Diastic Machine Together

Details

Your version will have the following features:

The user will input the seed phrase in a web form

Using JavaScript real$-$time validation:

Do not enable the "SUBMIT" button unless they've entered only letters and spaces

As the user types, the button will enable and disable as the user types $($based on the validity of their input$)$

The user will choose $($using a radio button or a drop down list$)$ which text story their poem will be based on$.$

The page $($index$.$php$)$ will either display the form or the resulting poem

There will be at least three tables created, one for each of the stories

You'll need to import the stories like we did in class.

Create a page $($with a link to it$)$ called stories.php$.$

This page will have one button for each story you have in your database

Each button will say $($for example$)$ "view brain table" $($i$.$e$.,$ whatever the three or more table names you created$)$

Upon clicking the button, it will print out $200$ records from the table in a random order

Every time I click the button, I'll get $200$ different records

Here's the query for a table called brain with the field holding the words called name:

"SELECT name FROM brain ORDER BY RAND$()$ LIMIT $200$;$"$

CRITICAL NOTE: Without the above stories.php file and functionality, the assignment will not be graded. This must be present to get any points.

NOTES:

Create a folder called "diastic" to be placed in the root directory of your server or in the htdocs folder if you have one

Inside the folder will have the index.php file with the code described above

You can get the stories from the text file siteLinks to an external site. or any other resource you'd like.