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Sunday, August 24. 2008

Gender PHP Extension

Hi there,

last week I wrote a PHP port for Joerg Michael's gender program. The program stands for gender recognition based on firstnames and has a base of >40000 firstnames from around the world. I hope the stuff is deserved to be accepted on PECL.

It's not yet a fully valuable extension, but a good working prototype. Get the working extension draft from there http://gender.rubay.de/gender-0.5.tar.bz2. With this you already can search within Joerg Michael's firstnames lexicon file using PHP. The extension is using php streams, so you can use unpacked file version as well (about 4Mb) and all the stuff streams do support.

The piece of code I'm suggesting to you:

PHP:
<?php
$gender = new Gender("compress.bzip2:///home/user/nam_dict.txt.bz2");
 
$name = "Milene";
$country = Gender::FRANCE;
 
$result = $gender->get($name, $country);
 
switch($result) {
    case Gender::IS_FEMALE:
        printf("The name %s is female in %s\n", $item[0], $item[1]);
    break;
 
    case Gender::IS_MOSTLY_FEMALE:
        printf("The name %s is mostly female in %s\n", $item[0], $item[1]);
    break;
 
    case Gender::IS_MALE:
        printf("The name %s is male in %s\n", $item[0], $item[1]);
    break;
 
    case Gender::IS_MOSTLY_MALE:
        printf("The name %s is mostly male in %s\n", $item[0], $item[1]);
    break;
 
    case Gender::IS_UNISEX_NAME:
        printf("The name %s is unisex in %s\n", $item[0], $item[1]);
    break;
 
    case Gender::IS_A_COUPLE:
        printf("The name %s is both male and female in %s\n", $item[0], $item[1]);
    break;
 
    case Gender::NAME_NOT_FOUND:
        printf("The name %s was not found for %s\n", $item[0], $item[1]);
    break;
 
    case Gender::ERROR_IN_NAME:
        echo "There is an error in the given name!\n";
    break;
 
    default:
        echo "An error occured!\n";
    break;
}
?>


Didn't find a name? Please let me know about it!

Regards

Anatoliy
Posted by Anatoliy Belsky in C/C++, PHP5, PHP5 extentions at 21:25 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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Oh, great job Anatoliy, a very interesting extension ^^

Off topic:i've just done a project which using libpurple (which we were talk before), and now i totally free to give you a hand in phurple, i waiting for your call, send me a mail ^^
#1 Nam on 2008-09-02 20:28 (Reply)

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