Have you ever worked on an app - any kind of app and you wish to generate random names.
Well, there are several libraries for that actually, I was able to solve the problem by creating a simple API just for that purpose.

Let me try attach something that will explain it a bit clearer.

You can test the api in the browser by running these urls:
http://Nairaland.com/api/names/5/html
http://Nairaland.com/api/names/5/json

You can even use this PHP code to test-run

$data=json_decode(file_get_contents("http://Nairaland.com/api/names/5/json";));
var_dump($data);

You will find the documentation here

Oya, let the discussions begin.

you are one useful programmer

losprince:
you are one useful programmer

Really? are you sure of your statement because there are folks on this board that will contest that.

Good job bro.

Thanks

dhtml18:

Really? are you sure of your statement because there are folks on this board that will contest that.

that's probably because you jerk around a times

losprince:
that's probably because you jerk around a times

hmn, all codes and no fun makes dhtml a dead boy troll!

Even better, use Faker. not an API, a local library with no limit.

If you read the original post on my website, I specified the library i used for the API - it is an open-source library -

Yeah, there are many ways to go about it. The thing is, most times you are working on a small project and just need a few names to test-drive your stuff. But if you are looking at downloading millions of names, please don't kill my server o - anyway, i have various means to attempt to check-mate that.