PHP metaphone function

Thursday, January 24, 2008, 10:53 AM
Source Code by John

echo metaphone("Garage");

Output: KRJ

The metaphone function is very likely a function you have never seen unless you have dug pretty deep into the PHP manual. Of course, there is one very obvious reason for that: it isn't the most useful command in the world.

About the only real use I've seen for it is in building a quick spell checker function. Other than that, I could imagine a cryptographic purpose for it, perhaps as a salt in a hash. I've seen some search algorithms that use it, but I'm not certain that a search that yield matches for "sun" and "son" as winners is a winner itself.

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