Need a butload of random names? Maybe for authors for your splog-network? Look no further!
In my infinite wisdom I have created a magical file that will spit out more random names than you can shake a stick at (Oh, I love that expression).
As a special perk for you WF'ers I included the gendermatic subroutine, so you will now what gender that random name that just landed in your lap, is.
Now, enough lofty talk. Its just a small php-function with 1000 male firstnames, 1000 female ditto and 1000 lastnames. It will make you a random name with a gender of your choise, or a random gender (100 points to you if you get a gender other than male or female
).
Here is the function doing all the work:
I didn't include all the names, but they are in the attached file.
Use it like this:
The output looks like this:
Thats about it. Go make some names.
In my infinite wisdom I have created a magical file that will spit out more random names than you can shake a stick at (Oh, I love that expression).
As a special perk for you WF'ers I included the gendermatic subroutine, so you will now what gender that random name that just landed in your lap, is.
Now, enough lofty talk. Its just a small php-function with 1000 male firstnames, 1000 female ditto and 1000 lastnames. It will make you a random name with a gender of your choise, or a random gender (100 points to you if you get a gender other than male or female
).Here is the function doing all the work:
Code:
function makename($gender, $rand = 0)
{
// Get the names
global $malefirstnames;
global $femalefirstnames;
global $lastnames;
if ($rand) { //Should the name be a random gender?
return makename(rand(0, 1)); // Indeed.
} else {
if ($gender) { // Lets make us a male name.
$name['gender'] = 'Male';
$name['firstname'] = $malefirstnames[rand(0, (count($malefirstnames) - 1))];
} else { // Ditto female.
$name['gender'] = 'Female';
$name['firstname'] = $femalefirstnames[rand(0, (count($femalefirstnames) - 1))];
}
$name['lastname'] = $lastnames[rand(0, (count($lastnames) - 1))];
return $name;
}
}I didn't include all the names, but they are in the attached file.
Use it like this:
Code:
makename(1); // Returns a male name
makename(0); // Returns a female name
makename(1, true); // Returns a name of random genderThe output looks like this:
Code:
Array
(
[gender] => Female
[firstname] => Jewell
[lastname] => Cohen
)Thats about it. Go make some names.
