[PHP] How To Make A Talking Bot

[HotelUnderSeige]

Ok well, heres how to make a php bot., and heres an example http://prezzieworld.net/bot.php

<form method="post"> 
Message: <input name="message" type="text" /> 
<br />

<input type="submit" value="Send Message" />

<?php 
$name =$_POST['name'];
$message =$_POST['message'];
if ( $message == "hello") {
$return = "how are you?";
}
if ($message == "good you?") {
$return = "i am good";
}
if ($message == "good") {
$return = "thats cool";
}
if ($message == "sad") {
$return = "well why are u sad";
}
if ($message == "sad you?") {
$return = "im good, and why so sad?";
}
if ($message == "fine") {
$return = "fine, usually that measn your bored!";
}
if ($message == "fine you?") {
$return = "im good";
} 
?>
<br />
<? echo("$return"); ?>

That is how you do it, just change it to what u would like to add. It is all done if if statements.

The if statement is necessary for most programming, thus it is important in PHP. Imagine that on January 1st you want to print out "Happy New Year!" at the top of your personal web page. With the use of PHP if statements you could have this process automated, months in advance, occuring every year on January 1st. 
This idea of planning for future events is something you would never have had the opportunity of doing if you had just stuck with HTML. 

[MentaL]

[hacker_kts]

Well, if you're making a talking bot. I believe it's not a best way.
Just my 2 cents comment.

[Daevius]

Quite basic, but nice try. Maybe it would be nice to let it actually interpret the language and figure out what is said... (or try with regex's, where you see if the word hello is in the text, or how are you...).

[EliteGM]

Try using a switch statement.
Try something like this:

<form method="post"> 
Message: <input name="message" type="text" />
<label><input type="radio" name="type" value="switch" checked="checked" />Switch case</label>&nbsp;
<label><input type="radio" name="type" value="preg_replace" />Preg_replace</label> 
<br />

<input type="submit" value="Send Message" />

<?php 
$message = $_POST['message'];
$type    = $_POST['type'];

if ($type == 'switch')
{
    switch(strtolower($message))
    {
        case 'hello':
                     $return = 'How are you?';
                     break;
        case 'good you?':
                     $return = 'I am good.';
                     break;
        case 'good':
                     $return = 'That\'s cool.';
                     break;
        case 'sad':
                     $return = 'Well, why are you sad?';
                     break;
        case 'sad you?':
                     $return = 'I\'m good, and why so sad?';
                     break;
        case 'fine':
                     $return = "Fine, usually that means you're bored!";
                     break;
        case 'fine you?':
                     $return = 'I\'m good.';
                     break;
        default:
                     $return = 'Why hello!';
                     break;
    }
}
else if ($type == 'preg_replace')
{
    $find = array(
                  "/(.*?)hello(.*?)/is",                               
                  "/(.*?)good(.*?)you\?(.*?)/is",                               
                  "/(.*?)good(.*?)/is",                               
                  "/(.*?)sad(.*?)/is",                               
                  "/(.*?)sad(.*?)you\?(.*?)/is",                               
                  "/(.*?)fine(.*?)/is",                               
                  "/(.*?)fine(.*?)you\?(.*?)/is"
                  );
    
    $replace = array(
                    "How are you?",                               
                    "I'm good.",                               
                    "That's cool!",                               
                    "Well, why are you sad?",                               
                    "I'm good, and why so sad?",                               
                    "Fine, usually that means you're bored!",                               
                    "I'm good."
                    );
    $return  = preg_replace($find, $replace, $message);
}

echo $return;
?>
<br />

[s-p-n]

It could turn into something cool... Maybe make a form where users/admins can add more conditions. That way the engine can live and grow as it ages and gets more popular. Maybe make a website designed to relive stress or give advice on certain questions. Maybe someday it could develope a personallity.

For example, if it's designed to have multiple responses for some questions, it could say something random for things like "How are you?"

Maybe the user wants to know how the server is doing, and the server will respond with a random response ranging from "Fine, good, bad, sad, happy, glad, extatic, sleepy, disturbed, sick, etc."

Then if the user asks a single word question, such as "Why?", it will respond with an answer relating to it's last answer. So the end result could be a user talking to a computer for 10 minutes... Pretty funny.. lol

Johny: Hello.
server: Hey Johny! What's up?
Johny: Not much, how are you?
server: I'm feeling kind of sick right now..
Johny: Why's that?
server: Someone's been spamming my database with useless posts.. like this one!

lol...

[Omer]

can anyone translate that code to java? :p

[Daney]

Nice, but why not use MySQL. When it recieves the 'trigger' search the MySQL table for the 'result' then echo it, will decrease the size of the .php file but it will be moved to the .SQL file.

Good Luck.

[Superfun]

Wouldn't matter, its just an array with a few *****. <-- wait i cant say word-s

[s-p-n]

I made this an open source project! Hope you don't mind, HotelUnderSeige

Post More Source and check for updates/info here:
http://forum.ragezone.com/f86/openso...me-bot-478882/

Check it out now here:
http://talk2mebot.awardspace.com/

P.S. Try saying: "You suck", "This sucks", "This thing sucks" or "talk2mebot sucks" lol...

You can add more things for it to recognize/respond to!

Enjoy your experience talking to yourself !! ;)

[HotelUnderSeige]

I made this an open source project! Hope you don't mind, HotelUnderSeige

Post More Source and check for updates/info here:
http://forum.ragezone.com/f86/openso...me-bot-478882/

Check it out now here:
http://talk2mebot.awardspace.com/

P.S. Try saying: "You suck", "This sucks", "This thing sucks" or "talk2mebot sucks" lol...

You can add more things for it to recognize/respond to!

Enjoy your experience talking to yourself !! ;)

sweet ;p

[zingmars]

first one looks good and easy... the other one with radios... i don't get it ...

[FragFrog]

Aah, good times.. I once wrote a bot called Fai, based on pretty much the same principle. As an added bonus I wrote a webcrawler that read texts on the internet and searched them for definitions and info, she could come up with some witty remarks.. See http://fai.fragfrog.nl

In training mode you can also learn her new stuff, that has led to some unexpected results already :icon6:

She's also on IRC sometimes, irc.sorcery.net channel #ragezone, tho' you can invite her to your own channel too :smile:

[casuarina]

but if u do ur code we must know the exact words to write so the bot replies thats kinda hard u know.

[!BERZERK!]

to easy to error the code. simply not say something that is in the code that you put and voila no response.

[lordvladek]

Kinda neat lol. Althought I like fragfrogs, Taught it how to say its gay. Kinda funny