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tobytes/colophoneticphp
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A class for retrieving the cologne phonetic (Kölner Phonetik) value of a string.

1.0.2(8y ago)515.2k1GPL-3.0-or-laterPHPPHP ~5.3|~7.0

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colophoneticphp
===============

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A class for retrieving the cologne phonetic (Kölner Phonetik) value of a string.

As described at [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kölner\_Phonetik](http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6lner_Phonetik)
Based on Hans Joachim Postel: Die Kölner Phonetik. Ein Verfahren zur Identifizierung von Personennamen auf der Grundlage der Gestaltanalyse. in: IBM-Nachrichten, 19. Jahrgang, 1969, S. 925-931

This class is based on the cologne\_phon function by Nikolas Zimmer (nicolas dot zimmer at einfachmarke.de) provided by him in a [comment](http://de2.php.net/manual/en/function.soundex.php#84881) on php.net.

I modified the function to fix some errors and wrapped a class around it.

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

[](#installation)

Installation of this module uses composer. For composer documentation, please refer to [getcomposer.org](http://getcomposer.org/).

Put the following into your composer.json

```
{
    "require": {
        "tobytes/colophoneticphp": "~1.0"
    }
}

```

###  Health Score

32

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LowBetter than 69% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity25

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

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**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.

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###  Release Activity

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Total

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Last Release

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PHP version history (2 changes)1.0.0PHP ~5.3

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