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metaphoneCalculate the metaphone key of a string Description
string metaphone(string
$string , int $max_phonemes = 0)
Calculates the metaphone key of 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]. Parameters
Return ValuesReturns the metaphone key as a string. Changelog
Examples
Example #1 metaphone basic example
The above example will output: string(7) "PRKRMNK" string(6) "PRKRMR"
Example #2 Using the
The above example will output: string(5) "PRKRM" string(5) "PRKRM"
Example #3 Using the
In this example, metaphone is advised to produce a string
of five characters, but that would require to split the final phoneme
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The above example will output: string(6) "ASTRKS" |