Decoding Google's Tweet With PHP

This is something for fun — nothing serious. It just happened that Google just sent a mysterious Tweet around 2 hours ago from now with an image with of the Google home page featuring an UFO. The UFO was seen pulling an O out of the google logo. But what the heck does that tweet mean ?

1.12.12 25.15.21.18 15 1.18.5 2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 21.19 was the tweet.

Well, it’s nothing tough. Every number separated by a dot or space corresponds to the alphabet. So, I wrote a PHP script to decode this mysterious tweet and finally found the meaning:

masnun@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ php decode-google-tweet
all your o are belong to us
masnun@ubuntu:~/Desktop$

masnun@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ php decode-google-tweet

all your o are belong to us

masnun@ubuntu:~/Desktop$

So, it meant ” all your o are belong to us ” 😉
Sounds a bit odd ? Or wrong in grammar ? yeah, still, that’s the message. It is confirmed on the twitpic image.

And here’s the source code —

<?php

$num = array(); // placeholder for 1 to 26
$alpha = array(); // placeholder for a to z

for($i=1;$i<27;$i++) { $num[]= $i; } // dynamically store 1 to 26 in the array
for($i='a';$i<'z';$i++) { $alpha[]= $i; } // dynamically store a to y in the array
$alpha[] = 'z'; // manually add z to the array
$dict = array_combine($num,$alpha); // combine them to form a dictionary

// print_r($dict);

$string = "1.12.12 25.15.21.18 15 1.18.5 2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 21.19"; // the code to decode
$arr = explode(" ",$string); // differentiate the parts

$meaning = ""; // placeholder for the ultimate meaning

for($i=0; $i<count($arr); $i++) {

$s = $arr[$i]; // dot seperated portions
$a = explode(".",$s); // seperate the numbers
for($j=0; $j<count($a); $j++) {
$ch = $a[$j]; // get individual numbers
$meaning .= $dict[$ch]; // look up in the dictionary for the corresponding char
 }
$meaning .=" "; // restore the spaces


}

echo $meaning."\n"; // echo the meaning

?>

<?php

$num = array(); // placeholder for 1 to 26

$alpha = array(); // placeholder for a to z

for($i=1;$i<27;$i++) { $num[]= $i; } // dynamically store 1 to 26 in the array

for($i='a';$i<'z';$i++) { $alpha[]= $i; } // dynamically store a to y in the array

$alpha[] = 'z'; // manually add z to the array

$dict = array_combine($num,$alpha); // combine them to form a dictionary

// print_r($dict);

$string = "1.12.12 25.15.21.18 15 1.18.5 2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 21.19"; // the code to decode

$arr = explode(" ",$string); // differentiate the parts

$meaning = ""; // placeholder for the ultimate meaning

for($i=0; $i<count($arr); $i++) {

$s = $arr[$i]; // dot seperated portions

$a = explode(".",$s); // seperate the numbers

for($j=0; $j<count($a); $j++) {

$ch = $a[$j]; // get individual numbers

$meaning .= $dict[$ch]; // look up in the dictionary for the corresponding char

}

$meaning .=" "; // restore the spaces

}

echo $meaning."\n"; // echo the meaning

It was quite a bit of fun decoding the message with PHP. Well, I do agree that there was no need to use PHP here. But why do the hard work from memory when you have automation tools at your hand 😉 ?

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