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<?php
 
/*
	Include magpierss. 
		-same library wordpress uses for feeds. 
		-we don't use the same code as wordpress because of extra code wordpress uses.
*/
require_once('magpierss/rss_fetch.inc');
 
 
$url = 'http://danielmiller.wordpress.com/feed'; // url of the rss feed we want to process
 
$rss = fetch_rss($url); // grab the rss feed
 
$current = 0; // current item in the feed
$words = array(); // word array
 
 
// while we have less then 48 words and there are still items in the rss feed process
while( (count($words) < 48) && ($current < count($rss->items)) ){
 
	$description = $rss->items[$current]['description']; // grab the description
	$grab = preg_split("/\W/", $description); // seperate by spaces
 
	// with the list of words from the current item in the feed we do the following
	foreach($grab as $word){
		$word = preg_replace('/(,|\.|\!|\?|\n)+?/','',$word); // remove punctuation
		$word = preg_replace('/&.{2,5};/','',$word); // remove html entities
		$word = preg_replace('/[0-9]+?/','',$word); // remove numbers
		$word = trim($word); // remove any extra whitespace
 
		// only if the word is between 3-10 characters long and is not already in
		// the word list. if it meets all that we add it.
		if((strlen($word) > 2) && (strlen($word) < 11) && !in_array($word,$words)){
			$words[] = strtolower($word); // word added
		}
	}
	$current++; // increment our item count in the feed
}
 
shuffle($words); // randomize our word list.
 
// since the technique above is optimize to bring back the words as quick as possible
// we could have more then 48 words.
 
$row = 1; $col = 0; // used to establish our position during output
for($i = 0; $i < 48; $i++){ // get the first 48 wordss
 
	// if we have cycled through 6 items need to increment row count
	// reset column count as well
	if($col > 5){ $col = 0; $row++;}
	// output html
	echo '<li class="row'.$row.'">'.$words[$i].'</li>';
 
	$col++; // increment column count
}
 
?>