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AI-powered search with Pagefind — PHP language binding

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Scolta PHP
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[](#scolta-php)

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PHP library that indexes content into Pagefind-compatible search indexes, plus the shared orchestration, memory-budget management, and AI client used by Scolta's CMS adapters.

Status
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[](#status)

Scolta 1.0 — the API documented here is stable. Breaking changes follow semantic versioning: no removal or signature change without a major version bump and a deprecation cycle. File bugs at the repo issue tracker.

What Is Scolta?
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[](#what-is-scolta)

Scolta is a scoring, ranking, and AI layer built on [Pagefind](https://pagefind.app/). Pagefind is the search engine: it builds a static inverted index at publish time, runs a browser-side WASM search engine, produces word-position data, and generates highlighted excerpts. Scolta takes Pagefind's result set and re-ranks it with configurable boosts — title match weight, content match weight, recency decay curves, and phrase-proximity multipliers. No search server required. Queries resolve in the visitor's browser against the pre-built static index.

This package is the PHP foundation for all three CMS adapters. It handles the parts that are the same regardless of platform: indexing content to Pagefind-compatible HTML files, AI provider communication, configuration management, memory budgeting, and the shared browser assets (`scolta.js`, `scolta.css`, and the pre-built WASM module). The CMS adapters (scolta-drupal, scolta-laravel, scolta-wp) depend on this package and add only their platform-specific concerns.

The LLM tier — query expansion, result summarization, follow-up questions — is optional. When enabled, it sends the query text and selected result excerpts to a configured LLM provider. The base search tier shares nothing with any third party; it runs entirely in the visitor's browser.

Running Example
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[](#running-example)

The examples in this README and the other Scolta repos use a recipe catalog as the concrete data set. Recipes are a good showcase because recipe vocabulary has cross-dialect mismatches that basic keyword search handles poorly:

- A search for `aubergine parmesan` should surface *Eggplant Parmigiana*.
- A search for `chinese noodle soup` should surface *Lanzhou Beef Noodles*, *Wonton Soup*, and *Dan Dan Noodles*.
- A search for `gluten free pasta` should surface *Zucchini Spaghetti with Pesto* and *Rice Noodle Stir-Fry*.
- A search for `quick dinner under 30 min` should surface *Pad Kra Pao*, *Dan Dan Noodles*, *Steak Frites*, and others.

The recipe fixture lives at `tests/fixtures/recipes/` — 20 HTML files in Pagefind-compatible format, one per recipe.

Here is how to index the recipe catalog outside any CMS, using the `IndexBuildOrchestrator` directly:

```