Re: web site question
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Mon, 01 Oct 2001 05:18:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: web site question | ||
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We use the similar_text() function for this.
On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Sky Kruse wrote:
> ok, I'm really curious:
>
> When I search for a particular function on the PHP web site and it isn't
> found -- eg, at
>
> http://www.php.net/manual-lookup.php?pattern=imagelib
>
> the site spits back a list of ten similar functions, including boldfacing
> ones that are very close to matching that name.
>
> How the heck do I do that? I've been beating my head against the wall on
> this one; I tried soundex'es and such and it seems like that wouldn't
> scale very well. (since soundexing every function name every time you
> "miss" on a search has got to be a sucky algorithm.)
>
> Can you enlighten me? Point me to somewhere I can read about it? I'm
> certainly willing to RTFM, I just can't find that section of it. ;-)
>
> Thank you so much!
>
> Sky
>