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dimanzver/fast-fuzzy-search
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Fast fuzzy search in an array of strings for the most similiar ones

v0.2.4(2y ago)03.5k↓11.2%1MITPHPPHP ^5.3.5 || ^7.0 || ^8.0

Since Sep 1Pushed 2y agoCompare

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FastFuzzySearch aimed to search an array of words for the most similiar to the specified one

The used algorythm is much faster than using levenstein distance, or similiar\_text functions.

*Usage:*

```
require_once("./FastFuzzySearch.php");

//Get words array: (it's english names, starting from A,B,C)
$words = array(
    'Abbott', 'Abe', 'Addison', 'Adrian', 'Aiken', 'Ainsley', 'Al', 'Alan',
    'Alaric', 'Alban', 'Albert', 'Albion', 'Aldrich', 'Alec', 'Alex', 'Alexander',
    'Alexis', 'Alf', 'Alfie', 'Alfred', 'Alger', 'Algernon', 'Alick', 'Allan',
    'Allen', 'Alton', 'Alvin', 'Ambrose', 'Andrew', 'Andy', 'Anthony', 'Archer',
    'Armstrong', 'Arnold', 'Ashley', 'Aston', 'Atwater', 'Aubrey', 'Austin',
    'Avery', 'Bailey', 'Baldwin', 'Barclay', 'Barrett', 'Bartholomew', 'Barton',
    'Basil', 'Baxter', 'Baz', 'Benedict', 'Benjamin', 'Bennett', 'Benson', 'Bentley',
    'Berkley', 'Bernard', 'Bert', 'Bill', 'Blake', 'Bob', 'Bobby', 'Bond', 'Brad',
    'Bradley', 'Brent', 'Bret', 'Brewster', 'Brian', 'Brigham', 'Brooke', 'Bruce',
    'Bruno', 'Bryant', 'Buck', 'Bud', 'Burgess', 'Burton', 'Byron', 'Cade', 'Caesar',
    'Caldwell', 'Calvert', 'Calvin', 'Carl', 'Carlton', 'Carter', 'Carver', 'Cary',
    'Casey', 'Cassian', 'Cecil', 'Cedric', 'Chad', 'Chandler', 'Chapman', 'Charles',
    'Charlie', 'Charlton', 'Chase', 'Chester', 'Chris', 'Christian', 'Christopher',
    'Chuck', 'Clarence', 'Claude', 'Clay', 'Clayton', 'Clement', 'Cliff', 'Clifford',
    'Clifton', 'Clive', 'Clyde', 'Cole', 'Coleman', 'Colin', 'Conrad', 'Constant',
    'Conway', 'Corwin', 'Courtney', 'Craig', 'Crispin', 'Crosby', 'Curtis', 'Cuthbert', 'Cyril'
);

//Create FastFuzzySearch object:
$ffs = new FastFuzzySearch($words);

//Lets pretend, this is user's input:
$input = "charter";

//Lets get three most similiar english names:
$results = $ffs->find($input, 3);

//End output it:
print_r($results);
```

Results would be:

```
Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [word] => carter
            [percent] => 0.75
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [word] => chad
            [percent] => 0.33333333333333
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [word] => charlie
            [percent] => 0.26666666666667
        )

)

```

###  Health Score

25

—

LowBetter than 35% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity22

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity39

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 91.3% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

1038d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/006e8107d5fbf667c096b1166b783731b29c76de4763430d12579595010cb539?d=identicon)[dimanzver](/maintainers/dimanzver)

---

Top Contributors

[![MihanEntalpo](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3025716?v=4)](https://github.com/MihanEntalpo "MihanEntalpo (21 commits)")[![dimansuvorlinda](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/34809155?v=4)](https://github.com/dimansuvorlinda "dimansuvorlinda (1 commits)")[![pinkslot](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2988005?v=4)](https://github.com/pinkslot "pinkslot (1 commits)")

---

Tags

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