Re: RFC: a package to interface to Random number web services

+1 for the package. What about Math_RandomGenService? El Mié 01 Ene 2003 19:17, Jesus M. Castagnetto escribió: > There are several web-based services that provide some math info/data. The > two I have played with are www.random.org and HotBits > (http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/). Both sites provide true random numbers, > which can be useful for a variety of purposes. The HoBits site uses > radioactive decay for generating their numbers, and random.org tests theirs > with a battery of statisical analysis to assure true randomness. > > Initially I made an interface only for random.org, but then I found > HotBits, and modify the whole system to use that too. It uses static > methods to call or create the appropriate objects. HotBits returns a string > of hexadecimals representing bytes, and random.org can return decimal > numbers or a list of bytes (in hexadecimal). > > For lack of a better name I am calling it Math_WebService, but that name > can be changed. Get the code using: > > $ pear install > http://www.scripps.edu/~jesusmc/stuff/Math_WebService-0.8.tgz > > In both services, I named the services' methods as the CGIs being used at > the their respective sites (mapped internally to the appropriate method). > An example of usage is below: > > include_once 'Math/WebService.php'; > > echo "random.org\n"; > $ran =& Math_WebService::create('randomorg'); > echo "* randbyte(nbytes=8)\n"; > $res = $ran->request('randbyte', array('nbytes'=>8)); > print_r($res); > echo "* randnum(num=10)\n"; > $res = $ran->request('randnum', array('num'=>10)); > print_r($res); > echo "* again randnum() using prev parameters\n"; > $res = $ran->more(); > print_r($res); > > echo "\nhotbits\n"; > $hot =& Math_WebService::create('hotbits'); > $res = $hot->request('hotbits',array('nbytes'=>5)); > echo "* hotbits(nbytes=5)\n"; > print_r($res); > $res = $hot->more(); > echo "* again hotbits() using prev parameters\n"; > print_r($res); > > echo "\nrandom.org\n"; > $res = Math_WebService::request('randomorg', 'randnum', > array('num'=>7)); > echo "* randnum(num=7) using a factory method from Math_WebService\n"; > print_r($res); > > Opinions/suggestions for code and name/+1s are welcomed. > > Cheers. > > ===== > --- Jesus M. Castagnetto (jcastagnetto@yahoo.com) > > Research: > http://metallo.scripps.edu/ > Personal: http://www.castagnetto.org/ > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com