Phyton & WordPress ( I have started to learn coding)

@4dg8 I don't see anything attached but have you tried using ChatGPT to help you convert the Python code to a Wordpress PHP module?

@ssadvisor  I have tried but with bad

results

@4dg8 I see a Python code. you need to convert to PHP wp function and utilize with JS code as we did in this guide: https://staging.learnwithhasan.com/create-ai-tools-with-wordpress/

@4dg8 try with the following prompt:

You are an expert at converting Python code to similar functions in PHP.  In the next prompt I will give you some code that I want converted. I want you to take a step by step approach and give me the completed code. Do you understand?

Here is the result when I tried this:

Let's break down the Python code and convert it into PHP step by step:

1. Importing necessary libraries: 
   - `requests` in Python is used to make HTTP requests. In PHP, we'll use the `cURL` functions.
   - `BeautifulSoup` from `bs4` is used for parsing HTML. In PHP, we can use the `DOMDocument` class.
   - `re` is for regular expressions. PHP has its own functions for regular expressions, like `preg_replace()`.
   - `tabulate` for creating tables. PHP does not have a direct alternative, but we can manually format tables.

2. The `count_words` function:
   - Send a GET request to the URL.
   - Parse the HTML, remove script and style tags, and then count words.

3. Iterating over URLs and printing results in tabular format.

Let's start converting:

```php
<?php

function count_words($url) {
    // Initialize cURL session
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    $html = curl_exec($ch);
    $httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
    curl_close($ch);

    if ($httpCode == 200) {
        $dom = new DOMDocument();
        @$dom->loadHTML($html);  // @ suppresses warnings

        // Remove script and style tags
        $script_tags = $dom->getElementsByTagName('script');
        $style_tags = $dom->getElementsByTagName('style');

        foreach ($script_tags as $tag) {
            $tag->parentNode->removeChild($tag);
        }

        foreach ($style_tags as $tag) {
            $tag->parentNode->removeChild($tag);
        }

        $text = $dom->textContent;
        $text = preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $text);  // Remove multiple whitespaces and newlines
        $words = explode(' ', $text);

        return count($words);
    } else {
        echo "Failed to retrieve content from {$url}. Error code: {$httpCode}\n";
        return 0;
    }
}

// List of URLs to process
$urls = [
    // Your URLs go here
];

$headers = ['URL', 'Word Count'];
$rows = [];

foreach ($urls as $url) {
    $word_count = count_words($url);
    $rows[] = [$url, $word_count];
}

// Print the table
echo "+".str_repeat("-", 50)."+" .str_repeat("-", 10)."+\n";
echo "|".str_pad("URL", 50). "|".str_pad("Word Count", 10)."|\n";
echo "+".str_repeat("-", 50)."+" .str_repeat("-", 10)."+\n";
foreach ($rows as $row) {
    echo "|".str_pad($row[0], 50). "|".str_pad($row[1], 10)."|\n";
}
echo "+".str_repeat("-", 50)."+" .str_repeat("-", 10)."+\n";

?>
```

This PHP code essentially replicates the behavior of the Python code provided, but there are some things to consider:

- The error handling is basic, and it may require more comprehensive checks depending on the use case.
- This PHP code outputs results directly. Depending on where you run this, you might want to refactor for output handling.
- Iterating over the nodes to remove them in the DOMDocument can be tricky, this code assumes there's only a small number of scripts and styles. If there are many of these tags, you may need a different approach to efficiently remove them all.
- Adjust the 50 and 10 numbers in the table output part of the script if you expect URLs or word counts to be longer/shorter. This will ensure the table formatting is consistent.

Take note of the "things to consider" as you may need to adjust the code.