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# metaphone

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

metaphone -- Возвращает ключ metaphone для строки

## Description

string metaphone ( string str )

Возвращает ключ metaphone для строки `str`.

Подобно функции soundex(),metaphone возвращает одинаковое значение для слов, имеющих сходное произношение. Эта функция более точна, чем soundex(), так как учитывает основные правила произношения английского языка. В отличие от soundex(), длина возвращаемой строки не фиксирована.

Функция metaphone была написана Lawrence Philips <lphilips at verity dot com> и описана в книге "Practical Algorithms for Programmers", Binstock & Rex, Addison Wesley, 1995.

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altano at bigfoot dot com
24-Nov-2005 01:48
`You can find the source code of a working example on how to use metaphones for spell checking, plus a free MySQL database dump of American English words and their metaphones at http://dubi.org/spell-checker
That should get you started on writing a spell-checker or whatever in no time.`
12-Oct-2005 10:44
`I have a forum for spanish speakers and the speller that I was using was using the metaphone function and it didn't make a lot of sense. I looked for an equivalent metaphone function for spanish and I never even came close to find it, so I was very happy to find the functional DoubleMetaphone(). Thanks to that function, I came up with this spanish_metaphone function.
Here it is:
http://www.geocities.com/isloera/spanish_methaphone.txt`
stpierre(ta)nebr]NOSPAM[wesleyan(tod)edu
09-Jul-2004 11:17
`A C implementation of double metaphone is at http://www.cpan.org/modules/ by-authors/id/MAURICE/Text-DoubleMetaphone-0.07.tar.gz. (Sorry I had to break that URL up; wouldn't let me post it otherwise.) If you really need double metaphone that badly, you could roll this into your PHP build for (I would suspect) substantial performance gains.`
mail at spam-off dot iaindooley dot com
16-Jan-2004 12:37
`you can use the metaphone function quite effectively with phrases by taking the levenshtein distances between two metaphone codes, and then taking this as a percentage of the length of the original metaphone code. thus you can define a percentage error, (say 20%) and accept only matches that are closer than that. i've found this works quite effectively in a function i am using on my website where an album name that the user entered is verified against existing album names that may be similar. this is also an excellent way of people being able to vaguely remember a phrase and get several suggestions out of the database. so you could type "i stiched nine times" with an error percentage of, say, 50 and still get 'a stitch in time saves nine' back as a match.`
server: zinkconsulting.com user: galen@
26-Nov-2003 02:18
`A small warning about the double metaphone function/class implemented in php: it's slow. Very slow.
On my Mac OS X box it takes roughly 4 seconds to calculate the double_metaphone of a given string 1,000 times and set a variable to that value. Given the exact same code, the built in metaphone function takes a mere 0.03 seconds. That's a huge difference. For reference, soundex takes about 0.015 seconds.
I had dreams of ranking my person database search results with double_metaphone, but with searches yielding a few thousand results sometimes, this isn't terribly reasonable. I'm back to basic metaphone functions.
I'd suggest anyone considering the use of the double_metaphone functionality weigh the slight improvement in results with the fact it's 100 times slower than the php function metaphone. I believe this difference is probably due mostly to implementation and optimization (php code vs. optimized internal php function).
Anybody up for writing a double_metaphone function for php? Maybe php 5?`
ahjs at ozemail dot com dot au
12-Mar-2002 10:51
`The improved double metaphone algorithm is available as a php class and function at http://swoodbridge.com/DoubleMetaPhone/`
davef at getacard dot com
21-Apr-2000 06:52
`A good reference to explain how the metaphone stuff works (and show you a working example) is:
http://www.lanw.com/java/phonetic/`
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