How to get random text from lorem Ipsum in PHP?

Question

I want the random text from Lorem Ipsum so I can use it when generating webpages. I can't find any PHP functions that does this and I'm wondering if there's any publicly available libraries or APIs on sites that could be used to get some random text?

Answer 1

$content = file_get_contents('http://loripsum.net/api');

Docs in the bottom right of this page:

Just do a GET request on loripsum.net/api, to get some placeholder text. You can add extra parameters to specify the output you're going to get. Say, you need 10 short paragraphs with headings, use http://loripsum.net/api/10/short/headers. All of the possible parameters are:

• (integer) - The number of paragraphs to generate.
• short, medium, long, verylong - The average length of a paragraph.
• decorate - Add bold, italic and marked text.
• link - Add links.
• ul - Add unordered lists.
• ol - Add numbered lists.
• dl - Add description lists.
• bq - Add blockquotes.
• code - Add code samples.
• headers - Add headers.
• allcaps - Use ALL CAPS.
• prude - Prude version.
• plaintext - Return plain text, no HTML.