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metaphone

(PHP 4 , PHP 5)

metaphone -- Calculate the metaphone key of a string

Description

string metaphone ( string str [, int phones])

Calculates the metaphone key of str.

Similar to soundex() metaphone creates the same key for similar sounding words. It's more accurate than soundex() as it knows the basic rules of English pronunciation. The metaphone generated keys are of variable length.

Metaphone was developed by Lawrence Philips <lphilips at verity dot com>. It is described in ["Practical Algorithms for Programmers", Binstock & Rex, Addison Wesley, 1995].

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metaphone

davef at getacard dot com
22-Apr-2000 09:52

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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