Re: [WebERP-developers] Script changes to enhance inventory description search regardless of keyword order

[Tim S. <ti...@we...>]

On 22 November 2011 08:40, Tim Schofield <ti...@we...> wrote:
> On 22 November 2011 08:17, Tim Schofield <ti...@we...> wrote:
>> Hi Debi,
>>
>> 2 I have wanted for a long time to implement a soundex
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex) algorithm into our search. A
>> lot of our users in warehouses tend to type in descriptions
>> phonetically, and it would be really great to have it. I'm sure I
>> found some PHP implementations of it before.
>>
>
> Of course I should point out that soundex searches make no sense with
> languages that use none phonetic characters such as Chinese. I'm not
> sure what happens with these??
>

Apologies for keeping replying to my own messages, but PHP does
actually have a soundex function.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.soundex.php

so writing it into the search shouldn't be that hard.

Its amazing how many new PHP functions I keep finding even now :-)


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