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metaphone

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

metaphoneCalculate the metaphone key of a string

说明

string metaphone ( string $str [, int $phones=0 ] )

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].

参数

str

The input string.

phones

返回值

Returns the metaphone key as a string.


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