gregorj/bofhstyleexcuses

Read and return a random BOFH style excuse from a given URL.

Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH) style random excuses

Based on Jeff Ballard's collection of BOFH style excuses of the day, this library selects a random one. In case you don't want to rely on the web sources, you can provide your own list anywhere file_get_contents() can open., _(*1)

Installation

composer require gregorj/bofhstyleexcuses, _(*2)

That's it. Well, you need composer installed first, but I guess that's obvious., _(*3)

Library usage

I added some unit tests which demonstrate the usage. A brief example:, _(*4)

<?php
use GregorJ\BOFHStyleExcuses\Excuses;
$excuses = new Excuses();
printf("Your excuse of the day: %s", $excuses->get());
?>

This example relies on the fact, that you use composer's autoloader in vendor/autoload.php., _(*5)

CLI usage

You can call bin/excuse from the commandline and wait patiently for a random excuse from Jeff Ballard's collection of BOFH style excuses., _(*6)

Website standalone usage

You can point apache to the webroot and it will display a minimal HTML page with a random excuse from Jeff Ballard's collection of BOFH style excuses., _(*7)

PHP unit tests

In case you want to run the unit tests, you can call vendor/bin/phpunit., _(*8)