PHP | metaphone() Function

Hello folks! welcome back to a new edition of our tutorial on PHP. In this tutorial guide, we are going to be studying about the PHP metaphone() Function.

The built-in metaphone() function is used to calculate the metaphone key of a string.

syntax

Following below is the syntax to use this function -

string metaphone ( string $str [, int $phonemes = 0 ] )

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Parameter Details

Sr.No	Parameters & Description
1	str It contains the information about input string.
2	length It specifies the length of metaphone key.

Return Value

This function returns the metaphone key as a string, or false on failure.

Example

Try out the example below -

<?php
   echo metaphone("webdesigntutorialz");
?>

Output

When the above code is executed, it will produce the following result -

WBTSKNTTRLS

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Alright guys! This is where we are going to be rounding up for this tutorial post. In our next tutorial, we will be studying about the PHP money_format() Function.

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