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frantzmiccoli/phphoneticindexing
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Phonetic indexing for PHP, uses the standard library for English, Cologne phonetics for German and a custom algorithm for French

1.0.2-stable(5y ago)010MITPHP

Since Aug 30Pushed 5y ago1 watchersCompare

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Scope
=====

[](#scope)

We try to provide different languages phonetic indexing methods.

- English: uses the PHP Standard Library `soundex()`
- German: uses a custom implementation of the Cologne phonetic indexing algorithm. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne\_phonetics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_phonetics)
- French: uses a custom algorithm (see below)

Installation
============

[](#installation)

```
composer require frantzmiccoli/phphoneticindexing

```

Usage
=====

[](#usage)

```
use PhPhoneticIndexing\GetPhoneticIndex;

$getPhoneticIndex = new GetPhoneticIndex();

var_dump($getPhoneticIndex->getPhoneticIndex('carabine', 'fr')); // karabyn

```

Please note that if you wish to support new languages, those can be added using `$getPhoneticIndex->addLanguage()`.

French implementation
=====================

[](#french-implementation)

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Side note
=========

[](#side-note)

Part of this was developed during a live programming session. Unfortunately the quality is awful, but the links are here:

- Live Programming: Phonetic indexing (1/4) - project motivation and existing solutions overview
- Live Programming: Phonetic indexing (2/4) - existing PHP code to support German
- Live Programming: Phonetic indexing (3/4) - adapting to French language, theory and tests
- Live Programming: Phonetic indexing (4/4) - French language implementation

###  Health Score

24

—

LowBetter than 32% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity5

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity56

Maturing project, gaining track record

 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 ~0 days

Total

3

Last Release

2081d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d33f9ef47440efb3d4fe331da12f5cff401e0303d4fa21a27fd878aa5a5040d8?d=identicon)[frantzmiccoli](/maintainers/frantzmiccoli)

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Top Contributors

[![frantzmiccoli](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2973447?v=4)](https://github.com/frantzmiccoli "frantzmiccoli (12 commits)")

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Tags

searchindexindexingphoneticsoundex

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