A PHP library that turns easy fuzzy string searching
composer require lucascavalcante/fuzzy-search
Given an array
$series = [
['title' => 'Grey\'s Anatomy', 'releaseYear' => '2016'],
['title' => 'Prison Break', 'releaseYear' => '2008'],
['title' => 'How I Met Your Mother', 'releaseYear' => '2014'],
['title' => 'Supernatural', 'releaseYear' => '2016'],
['title' => 'Breaking Bad', 'releaseYear' => '2013'],
['title' => 'The Vampire Diaries', 'releaseYear' => '2017'],
['title' => 'The Walking Dead', 'releaseYear' => '2015'],
['title' => 'Pretty Little Liars', 'releaseYear' => '2016'],
['title' => 'Once Upon a Time', 'releaseYear' => '2016'],
['title' => 'Sherlock', 'releaseYear' => '2016'],
['title' => 'Death Note', 'releaseYear' => '2006'],
['title' => 'Lottie Dottie Chicken', 'releaseYear' => '2009'],
['title' => 'Black Mirror', 'releaseYear' => '2016'],
['title' => 'The 100', 'releaseYear' => '2016'],
['title' => 'Marvel\'s Luke Cage', 'releaseYear' => '2016'],
['title' => 'Marvel\'s Iron Fist', 'releaseYear' => '2017'],
['title' => 'Narcos', 'releaseYear' => '2016'],
['title' => '3%', 'releaseYear' => '2016'],
['title' => 'Sex, Love and Therapy', 'releaseYear' => '2014'],
['title' => 'White Girl', 'releaseYear' => '2016'],
['title' => 'Girlboss', 'releaseYear' => '2017'],
['title' => 'City of God: 10 Years Later', 'releaseYear' => '2013'],
['title' => '13 Reasons Why', 'releaseYear' => '2017'],
['title' => '90210', 'releaseYear' => '2013'],
['title' => 'Gossip Girl', 'releaseYear' => '2012'],
['title' => 'Bates Motel', 'releaseYear' => '2016'],
['title' => '30 Rock', 'releaseYear' => '2012'],
];Create a new object
use FuzzySearch\FuzzySearch;
$keyToBeSearched = 'title'
$fuzzy = new FuzzySearch($series, $keyToBeSearched);Doing the search
$term = 'the hundred';
$maxDistance = 4;
print_r($fuzzy->search($term, $maxDistance));Result
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[title] => The 100
[releaseYear] => 2016
[distance] => 0
)
)
This project is licensed under the MIT license.