This class implements a "sounds like" algorithm developed by Lawrence Philips which he published in the June, 2000 issue of C/C++ Users Journal. Double Metaphone is an improved version of Philips' original Metaphone algorithm.
To add this package as a local, per-project dependency to your project, simply add a dependency on NoodlesNZ/double-metaphone to your project's composer.json file. Here is a minimal example of a composer.json file that just defines a dependency on double-metaphone:
{
"require": {
"NoodlesNZ/double-metaphone": "~1.0"
}
}
$d = new DoubleMetaphone('richard');
echo $d->primary . "\n";
echo $d->secondary . "\n";The code above yields the output below:
RXRT
RKRT