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eliasfernandez/phphinder
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A PHP powered lightweight search engine

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PHPhinder
=========

[](#phphinder)

**A lightweight and modular search engine built in PHP.**

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Table of Contents
-----------------

[](#table-of-contents)

- [About](#about)
- [Features](#features)
- [Installation](#installation)
- [Usage](#usage)
- [Configuration](#configuration)
- [Examples](#examples)
- [Contributing](#contributing)
- [License](#license)

---

About
-----

[](#about)

PHPhinder is an open-source, lightweight, and modular search engine designed for PHP applications. It provides powerful search capabilities with a focus on simplicity, speed, and extensibility.

---

Features
--------

[](#features)

- **Full-text search** for indexed documents.
- **Support for advanced queries**, including prefix queries, AND/OR/NOT combinations, and field-specific searches.
- **Lightweight and efficient**, with minimal dependencies.
- **Easy integration** with Symfony or other PHP frameworks.
- **Highly extensible**, allowing customization of query parsers and indexers.
- **Fuzzy search**. If no exact matches are found typo tolerance search is triggered

---

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Install PHPhinder via Composer:

```
composer require eliasfernandez/phphinder
```

---

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Here’s a simple example to demonstrate PHPhinder in action:

```
use PHPhinder\Index\JsonStorage;
use PHPhinder\SearchEngine;

$storage = new JsonStorage('var');
$engine = new SearchEngine($storage);

$engine->addDocument(['_id' => 1, 'title' => 'Hi', 'text' => 'Hello world!']);
$engine->flush();
$results = $engine->search('Hello');
print_r($results[1]->getDocument());
```

---

Configuration
-------------

[](#configuration)

PHPhinder offers several configuration options, including custom analyzers, tokenizers, and more. Refer to the [manual](docs/manual.md) for detailed instructions.

---

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

Contributions are welcome! Please review the [contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) before submitting pull requests.

---

License
-------

[](#license)

PHPhinder is open-source software licensed under the [MIT license](LICENSE).

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance49

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity17

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity32

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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

Every ~8 days

Recently: every ~15 days

Total

14

Last Release

413d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a25d7763a37c3b0f6f11de3faf29fce6c03ebb0338c5347166ed475a1b4e19b8?d=identicon)[eliasfernandez](/maintainers/eliasfernandez)

---

Top Contributors

[![eliasfernandez](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1588390?v=4)](https://github.com/eliasfernandez "eliasfernandez (32 commits)")

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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