local-ipsum

Generates “lorem ipsum” style text using user-supplied text. As the name suggests, it’s meant for location-specific text like “Cleveland Ipsum”, but it can be adapted to just about anything.

local.txt

You supply fodder to the text generator by creating a local.txt and putting it in the same directory as the PHP files. The format of local.txt is very simple:

1. Line 1: the title you want to give your ispum generator. For example, Cleveland Ipsum. Nothing else
2. Line 2 (optional): a geographic description of the locale in question. For example, Cleveland; Ohio; USA. This is currently not used by the code in any way, so if you want to skip this part, just leave the line blank.
3. All following lines: the terms you want to supply to the generator, one per line. This can be anything you want: the names of local suburbs, cultural institutions, sports teams, classic foods, notable names, and so on.

Comments are preceded by // and will be stripped out. Thus, if you want to organize your data by category, you can title each section with a line like // Notable Names. The parser will treat this as a blank line, which will be dropped when reading the file.

There is a sample local.txt provided to demonstrate the file format (such as it is).