PHP Word Puzzle Generator

This is a PHP web app for generating basic word puzzles.

It can generate-

• Find-a-words
• Cryptograms
• Word scrambles

A live version of this code runs at https://mike42.me/words/.

Installation

PHP versions from 5.6 up are supported. Simply generate the stylesheets and scripts, then copy the application to your PHP-enabled webserver:

composer install --no-dev
bower install
npm install
grunt

Development

MIT-licensed contributions are welcome.

The CI script at .travis.yml contains commands to set up and run a build on Linux.

Technology

This project uses-

Server-side:

• PHP (PSR-2 code conventions checked with PHP_CodeSniffer)
• Composer for server-side dependencies
• Testing
• PHPUnit for test execution
• Selenium browser tests
• Apache Web Server on Debian (in a Docker container) to host the app for testing.

Client code:

• Libraries
• Bootstrap
• JQuery
• Compilation/pre-processing
• Sass stylesheet processing
• Grunt build
• npm & bower for loading build pipleine dependencies