Happiness Machine PHP code

gistfile1.txt

<?php

function download($url){

  $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR,1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 15);
        $retValue = curl_exec($ch);                      
        curl_close($ch);
        return $retValue;

}

// get feelings from wefeelfine.com See the API for more details

$xmlUrl = "http://api.wefeelfine.org:8080/ShowFeelings?display=xml&feeling=happy&returnfields=feeling,sentence,country,city,postdate&limit=50"; // XML feed file/URL
$xmlStr = download($xmlUrl);


$xmlObj = simplexml_load_string($xmlStr);



$sentence = "";
$feeling = "";
$country = "";
$postdate = "";
$city = "";

// There's probably a better way to do this, but it works!

foreach($xmlObj->feeling[rand(0, 49)]->attributes() as $a => $b) {
if ($a == "sentence"){
	$sentence = $b;
}

if ($a == "feeling"){
	$feeling = $b;
}

if ($a == "country"){
	$country = $b;
}

if ($a == "city"){
	$city = $b;
}

if ($a == "postdate"){
	$postdate = $b;
}
    
}

$d = "";

if ($postdate !="") {
	$d .= "On ".$postdate." someone ";
}

if ($country !="") {
	$d .= "in ".$country." ";
}

if ($feeling !="") {
	$d .= "was feeling ".$feeling." and ";
}

if ($sentence !="") {
	$d .= "said \n\"".$sentence."\"";
}

echo "data=".wordwrap($d, 30, "\n", false)."\n";



?>