Mick Redman: lorem

Monday, 28 March 2011

Lorem Ipsum API using PHP

Below are some examples of using the Lorem Ipsum API. A useful tool for someone like me. I always need dummy text. I got the documentation from http://loripsum.net/

See demo.

Uncomment at will.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Lorem Ipsum API</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/reset.css" />
<style>
body
{
font-family:Sans-serif;
line-height:1.5em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<?php
/* Standard set of items. By default they are paragraphs. */
/* echo file_get_contents('http://loripsum.net/api'); */
/* Set number of items */
/* echo file_get_contents('http://loripsum.net/api/2'); */
/*
Set length of items
Options can be short, medium, long, verylong.
*/
/* echo file_get_contents('http://loripsum.net/api/long'); */
/*
Set decoration of items
Options can be bold, italic and marked.
*/
/* echo file_get_contents('http://loripsum.net/api/bold'); */
/* Add links to some of the text */
/* echo file_get_contents('http://loripsum.net/api/link'); */
/* Add unordered lists. */
/* echo file_get_contents('http://loripsum.net/api/ul'); */
/* Add unordered lists. */
/* echo file_get_contents('http://loripsum.net/api/ul'); */
/* Add ordered lists. */
/* echo file_get_contents('http://loripsum.net/api/ol'); */
/* Add description lists. */
/* echo file_get_contents('http://loripsum.net/api/dl'); */
/* Add blockquotes. */
/* echo file_get_contents('http://loripsum.net/api/bq'); */
/* Add code samples. */
/* echo file_get_contents('http://loripsum.net/api/code'); */
/* Add headers. */
/* echo file_get_contents('http://loripsum.net/api/headers'); */
/* Use ALL CAPS. */
/* echo file_get_contents('http://loripsum.net/api/allcaps'); */
/* Prude version. Takes out latin words like 'sex' or 'homo'. Cheer up! */
echo file_get_contents('http://loripsum.net/api/prude');
?>
</body>
</html>