Comments on: A PHP Competition 2

By: Codehead

Codehead — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:06:40 +0000

I didn’t approve the responses so they won’t effect anybody’s solution…

By: Jeff Clark

Jeff Clark — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:24:22 +0000

Not much of a competition considering how easy it was. Must be why there were no responses.

Well, since your specification ranges overlapped I’ll just go by groups of 1000 starting with 0.

… drum roll …

abs((floor($codeheads++/1000)/10)-0.9)

If you want code that does not generate a NOTICE error:

abs((floor((isset($codeheads)?$codeheads++:$codeheads=1)/1000)/10)-0.9);

By: Vince

Vince — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:48:03 +0000

1 – ( .1 * intval( ( $count++ + 1000 ) / 1000 ) )

or if you wanted people to be a bit more confused change the increment around.

1 – ( .1 * intval( ( ++$count + 999 ) / 1000 ) )

By: Turbo

Turbo — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:31:52 +0000

err… $count++, that is

By: Turbo

Turbo — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:31:15 +0000

$priority = sprintf(‘%01.1f’, ((5000 – $count++)/5000));

By: Codehead

Codehead — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:07:49 +0000

David, I honestly think that the post explains it clearly but yes, what you are asking is right and yes in order they are encountered in the loop.

Again yes, it’s must be a mathematical operation, maybe function calls, you can nest as many function calls as you want but not ;

Thanks!

By: David

David — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:27:37 +0000

Your post is very ill-worded. If all URLs were given a priority of 0.9, then we’ve technically fulfilled your requirements. However, I think I get what you’re trying to say…

I get that the ############# has to be a mathematical one-liner (presumably not a custom function call)… My question is: Is the priority of the URLs is based solely on the order in which they are encountered within the loop?

For more clarity, is this what you mean?:

URLs 1-1000: Priority between 0.9 and 1
URLs 1001-2000: Priority between 0.8 and 0.89
URLs 2001-3000: Priority between 0.7 and 0.79
URLs 3001-4000: Priority between 0.6 and 0.69
URLs 4001-5000: Priority between 0.5 and 0.59

David

By: Codehead

Codehead — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:17:46 +0000

I will approve the responses all at once 2 weeks from now…

By: Jake Wharton

Jake Wharton — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:54:48 +0000

.9-.1*floor($count++/1000)