php-text-statistics Google Group

Interesting tool!

mike.giff...@gmail.com (Mike Gifford) — Fri, 10 Oct 2009 15:14:55 UT

I'm interested in building a module for Drupal that automatically
reports on the readability of the text that's been entered. I had run
across some command line tools, but doing it all in PHP sounds much
easier to adopt.

This is part of a larger accessibility evaluation that we're doing,
but I wanted to just thank you for contributing this code to the

Readability Grades

tony.tarrow.arrowsmi...@gmail.com (sooty) — Thu, 09 Sep 2009 11:56:41 UT

When writing short stories or novels how valuable is readability
grades when assessing the quality of your writing? Without going into
grammar correction programs. Plus when judging assessment levels
concerning Average grade levels, what is considerer an expectable
Average grade level? I have read volumes, regarding Average grade

Multi-byte string functions

tpwal...@gmail.com (TomW) — Sun, 03 Mar 2009 10:36:17 UT

The PHP installation does not have the multi-byte string functions
enabled by default. Is there a way to determine if they are enabled
and then use them, and otherwise skip straight to the built-in strlen?

Integration with HTML-Kit

tpwal...@gmail.com (TomW) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:19:37 UT

Hello,

For background, I regularly use an editor known as HTML-Kit (http://
[link]) for web site work. It is extensible through a wide-
ranging plugin system. On the support newsgroups a couple of weeks
ago, there was a question about writing some sort of readability
statistics plugin. It has been a few years since the last time I wrote

Readability Questions

ac3bu...@yahoo.com (merald ACE) — Fri, 01 Jan 2009 16:25:10 UT

Thank you so much Mr. David Child for that prompt response, Im still somehow confused. Now that you mention it. Does it affect the credibility? Does it no longer necessarily mean that the shorter the number of words used, the higher the grade will be? My defense is approaching and I'm looking into what i can consider loophole with our study regarding readability statistics. What are the implications of your explanation about the average syllables? What could be the best suggestion in order for us to have a higher grade. Thank You so much and Good Day to all.

Grading

ac3bu...@gmail.com (ac3buddy@gmail.com) — Fri, 01 Jan 2009 01:45:41 UT

Hi guys. i know it might somehow sound odd but i thought , based on
the rules of readability . the active voice which has fewer words than
passive ones .. But when i checked the phrase The quick brown fox jump
over the lazy dog and " The lazy dog, was jumped over by the quick
brown fox." the latter rendered a higher score. Please help me.. This

translated to Ruby

kapel...@gmail.com (way4thesub) — Tue, 01 Jan 2009 23:16:45 UT

Hello all,

I've translated the php-text-statistics package to Ruby, you can view
the files below. Please note I couldn't get the Gunning Fog Score to
work 100%

Regards,
Adam

require 'collections/sequenced_hash'

module ReadabilityIndices

class Readability

NumDecimalPlaces = 1

Readability of html

joel...@cyberone.com.au (Joel Nation) — Mon, 09 Sep 2008 09:21:49 UT

The problem with these readability scores is that they don't take into
consideration the way html works. For instance you very rarely put a
full stop in a heading tag (eg: <h1>Hello.</h1>) but this will affect
most of the scores as that word will now be added to the next sentence
and make it longer then it actually is. And with lots of headings you