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talk show tell print

lib-jquery-learning-code-06-e.php / php



  <?php
  
  entries = array(
    'EAVESDROP' => array(
      'part' => 'v.i.',
      'definition' => 'Secretly to overhear a catalogue of the
        crimes and vices of another or yourself.',
      'quote' => array(
        'A lady with one of her ears applied',
        'To an open keyhole heard, inside,',
        'Two female gossips in converse free &mdash;',
        'The subject engaging them was she.',
        '"I think," said one, "and my husband thinks',
        'That she\'s a prying, inquisitive minx!"',
        'As soon as no more of it she could hear',
        'The lady, indignant, removed her ear.',
        '"I will not stay," she said, with a pout,',
        '"To hear my character lied about!"',
      ),
      'author' => 'Gopete Sherany',
    ),
    'EDIBLE' => array(
      'part' => 'adj.',
      'definition' => 'Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as
        a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig,
        a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.',
    ),
    'EDUCATION' => array(
      'part' => 'n.',
      'definition' => 'That which discloses to the wise and
        disguises from the foolish their lack of
        understanding.',
    ),
    'ELOQUENCE' => array(
      'part' => 'n.',
      'definition' => 'The art of orally persuading fools that
        white is the color that it appears to be.  It includes
        the gift of making any color appear white.',
    ),
    'ELYSIUM' => array(
      'part' => 'n.',
      'definition' => 'An imaginary delightful country which
        the ancients foolishly believed to be inhabited by the
        spirits of the good.  This ridiculous and mischievous
        fable was swept off the face of the earth by the early
        Christians &mdash; may their souls be happy in Heaven!',
    ),
    'EMANCIPATION' => array(
      'part' => 'n.',
      'definition' => 'A bondman\'s change from the tyranny of
        another to the despotism of himself.',
      'quote' => array(
        'He was a slave:  at word he went and came;',
        'His iron collar cut him to the bone.',
        'Then Liberty erased his owner\'s name,',
        'Tightened the rivets and inscribed his own.',
      ),
      'author' => 'G.J.',
    ),
    'EMOTION' => array(
      'part' => 'n.',
      'definition' => 'A prostrating disease caused by a
        determination of the heart to the head.  It is
        sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of
        hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.',
    ),
    'ENVELOPE' => array(
      'part' => 'n.',
      'definition' => 'The coffin of a document; the scabbard
        of a bill; the husk of a remittance; the bed-gown of a
        love-letter.',
    ),
    'ENVY' => array(
      'part' => 'n.',
      'definition' => 'Emulation adapted to the meanest
        capacity.',
    ),
    'EPITAPH' => array(
      'part' => 'n.',
      'definition' => 'An inscription on a tomb, showing that
        virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
        Following is a touching example:',
      'quote' => array(
        'Here lie the bones of Parson Platt,',
        'Wise, pious, humble and all that,',
        'Who showed us life as all should live it;',
        'Let that be said &mdash; and God forgive it!',
      ),
    ),
    'EVANGELIST' => array(
      'part' => 'n.',
      'definition' => 'A bearer of good tidings, particularly
        (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own
        salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.',
    ),
  );
  
  if (isset(entries[strtoupper(_REQUEST['term'])])) {
    entry = entries[strtoupper(_REQUEST['term'])];
    
    html = '<div class="entry">';
  
    html .= '<h3 class="term">';
    html .= strtoupper(_REQUEST['term']);
    html .= '</h3>';
  
    html .= '<div class="part">';
    html .= entry['part'];
    html .= '</div>';
  
    html .= '<div class="definition">';
    html .= entry['definition'];
    if (isset(entry['quote'])) {
      html .= '<div class="quote">';
      foreach (entry['quote'] as line) {
        html .= '<div class="quote-line">'. line .'</div>';
      }
      if (isset(entry['author'])) {
        html .= '<div class="quote-author">'. entry['author'] .'</div>';
      }      
      html .= '</div>';
    }
    html .= '</div>';
    
    html .= '</div>';
    
    print(html);
  }
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