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masroore/stopwords
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A PHP package to remove common stopwords from an input text, it covers most languages.

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Stopwords for PHP
=================

[](#stopwords-for-php)

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Overview
--------

[](#overview)

Stopwords in multiple languages that you can easily use with your PHP applications.

Supported languages
-------------------

[](#supported-languages)

Currently provides stopwords for the following languages:

- Arabic
- Azerbaijani
- Bengali
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Kazakh
- Nepali
- Norwegian
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Slovene
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Tajik
- Turkish

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

[](#installation)

> **Requires [PHP 8.0+](https://php.net/releases/)**

You can install the package via composer:

```
composer require masroore/stopwords
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
$stopwords = new Kaiju\Stopwords\Stopwords();

// get the list of available languages
print_r($stopwords->getLanguages());

// load stopwords for a language
$stopwords->load('english');

// load stopwords for multiple languages
$stopwords->load(['english', 'french']);

// load stopwords for all available languages
$stopwords->load('*');

// check if the given word is a stop-word
$stopwords->isStopword('the'); // TRUE
$stopwords->isStopword('America'); // FALSE

// return a tokenized copy of the text, with stop-words and punctuation marks removed
$text = "Good muffins cost $3.88\nin New York.  Please buy me two of them.\n\nThanks!\n";
print_r($stopwords->strip($text));
// ["Good","muffins","cost","$3.88","New","York","Please","buy","two","Thanks"]

echo $stopwords->clean($text);
// "Good muffins cost $3.88 New York Please buy two Thanks"
```

Testing
-------

[](#testing)

```
composer test
```

Changelog
---------

[](#changelog)

Please see [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for more information on what has changed recently.

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

[](#contributing)

Thank you for considering to contribute to Collision. All the contribution guidelines are mentioned [here](CONTRIBUTING.md).

Security Vulnerabilities
------------------------

[](#security-vulnerabilities)

Please review [our security policy](../../security/policy) on how to report security vulnerabilities.

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

- [Masroor Ehsan](https://github.com/masroore)
- [All Contributors](../../contributors)

License
-------

[](#license)

Collision is an open-sourced software licensed under the [MIT license](LICENSE.md).

###  Health Score

32

—

LowBetter than 72% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity26

Limited adoption so far

Community12

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

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

1437d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/200963?v=4)[Masroor Ehsan](/maintainers/masroore)[@masroore](https://github.com/masroore)

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Top Contributors

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Tags

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