Start Word Suggestions for Wordle Styling and Scripting Tutorial
Yesterday’s Start Word Suggestions for Wordle Primer Tutorial proof of concept “Start Five Letter Word for Wordle Suggester” web application managed to create a workable webpage that did not need a “head” element. What are you missing with no “head” element? Primarily …
… and, perhaps a webpage title element, and, perhaps “meta” elements like “meta viewport” elements that help with mobile device display (improved visibility, for us).
Within the PHP code we introduced some of all these improvements via …
<?php
$hsc="<head>
<title>Start five letter word for Wordle - RJM Programming - February, 2022</title>
<meta id='myviewport' name='viewport' content='width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=0.1, maximum-scale=8, user-scalable=yes' >
<style>
td {
text-align: center;
}
td:nth-child(2n+1) {
background-color: #f3f7fa;
}
th:nth-child(2n+1) {
background-color: #f3f7fa;
}
body {
background-color: #f7f7f7;
}
</style>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var wois=null;
function mixitup() {
var others=prompt('Space separate the word(s) \"sort\" to sort for Weirdness and/or \"unique\" for five letter words with no repeated letters. Optionally precede by that number of five letter word suggestions to create for use with Wordle, followed by a space character.', '');
var clickthis='';
if (others == null) { others=''; }
others=others.replace(String.fromCharCode(34),'').replace(String.fromCharCode(34),'').replace(String.fromCharCode(34),'').replace(String.fromCharCode(34),'').replace(String.fromCharCode(34),'').replace(String.fromCharCode(34),'').replace(String.fromCharCode(34),'').replace(String.fromCharCode(34),'');
others=others.toLowerCase().replace('sort',' sort').replace('uniqu',' uniqu');
if (others.trim() != '') {
var aothers=others.trim().split(' ');
if (aothers[0].replace(/0/g,'').replace(/1/g,'').replace(/2/g,'').replace(/3/g,'').replace(/4/g,'').replace(/5/g,'').replace(/6/g,'').replace(/7/g,'').replace(/8/g,'').replace(/9/g,'') == '') {
document.getElementById('defopt').value='-' + aothers[0];
document.getElementById('defopt').innerHTML=aothers[0];
document.getElementById('sugnum').value='-' + aothers[0];
others=others.replace(aothers[0],'').trim();
clickthis='mysub';
}
}
if (others.trim() != '') {
var sv=document.getElementById('sugnum').value;
document.getElementById('myform').innerHTML+='<input type=hidden name=others value=\"' + others + '\"></input>';
document.getElementById('sugnum').value=sv;
}
if (clickthis != '') { document.getElementById(clickthis).click(); }
}
</script>
</head>";
?>
It allows us to offer “sort” (via word weirdness) and “uniquify” (to enforce unique letter sets per five letter word) additional functionality. We hope you try the changed start_word_for_wordle_helper.php live run link, or below, to try out these improvements.
Previous relevant Start Word Suggestions for Wordle Primer Tutorial is shown below.
Start Word Suggestions for Wordle Primer Tutorial
A new word game is an interesting phenomenon. Are you a regular “Wordle” player? We tried it the other day, and see why it’s addictive. But it seems to us, a lot relies on that first five letter word guess you make.
And so we decided to try to help out, at least in English, by accessing the macOS and Linux dictionary resources, and add in a “weirdness score”, the scoring for which we adopt a “Scrabble stance”. Interested? Try start_word_for_wordle_helper.php‘s live run, or below …
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