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A self-contained full-text search engine in pure PHP. No extensions, no dependencies.
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PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions
by asmodios·May 6, 2026·89 points·27 comments
AI Analysis
●●SolidBig BrainSolve My Problem
BM25 scoring and trigram indexing in pure PHP when Elasticsearch isn't an option.
Strengths
- •O(1) trigram lookup with fixed-size index around 810 KB
- •Honest about limitations - shared hosting, not millions of documents
- •Atomic updates with soft deletes and compaction built in
Weaknesses
- •Not suitable for real-time indexing under heavy concurrent writes
- •Pure PHP search engines exist, though this one's dependency-free
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Target Audience
PHP developers on shared hosting without access to Elasticsearch or Meilisearch
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Meilisearch · Typesense · Elasticsearch
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