| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3848 | Composr | search | public | 2019-07-15 01:25 | 2020-05-18 17:21 |
| Reporter | Adam Edington | Assigned To | Chris Graham | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | ||
| Status | closed | Resolution | won't fix | ||
| Summary | 3848: Metaphonic search indexing | ||||
| Description | By making use of the PHP 'metaphone' function we could allow the search engine to be more tolerant of spelling mistakes. The metaphone function reduces spelling to a simplified phonetic spelling that captures the broad sound but in a much denser way (i.e. less room for subtle alternatives). For example, the metaphone() of the word "javascript" returns the string: JFSKRPT. For example. Composr would return KMPSR and Conposr would return KNPSR. Even if you typed Composer and Conposer the phonetic results are the same as without the 'e' (KMPSR, KNPSR) - a good example of the aforementioned tolerance for mistakes. To implement this, we'd need to introduce metaphonic indexing, similar to full-search indexing. Search terms would be converted to their metaphone-equivalent, then compared to entries in the index. | ||||
| Additional Information | The YouTube video where I discovered this little known/used function @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuj1wDMlZc0 A tutorial which uses the equally obscure levenshtein function to return the minimum number of modified characters to further enhance results @ https://www.codepunker.com/blog/implement-a-sounds-like-search-in-php | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Time estimation (hours) | 16 | ||||
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- Anonymous
