[Corpora-List] Open-source PHP concordancer?

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Sat Nov 26 11:29:21 UTC 2005


The most recent version of xaira comes with a php interface and is 
entirely open source. But it will only work with a corpus of XML documents.

See http://xaira.sf.org


Samuel Henderson wrote:

> Hello esteemed list members,
> 
> I have been looking for an open-source PHP concordancing program, thus 
> far without any luck.  I'd appreciate any guidance you might be able to 
> provide. 
> 
> Since my ultimate objective is to create a concordancer module for the 
> Moodle course-management system -- which could then be used and improved 
> by educators all over the world -- I need something that can be shared 
> freely.  There are any number of PHP concordancers running on the net, 
> but I have not been able to find any with public, shareable source code.  
> 
> I would like to find something that has already been written, because 
> frankly the nuts and bolts of PHP string handling are still a little 
> overwhelming for me.  If someone has just written the basic functions 
> for KWiC lines and collocation counts, I could easily handle the rest of 
> the job.
> 
> Any leads?  Many thanks in advance.
> 
> Yours in corpore et mentis (?),
> 
> Sam Henderson
> Pusan National University, South Korea



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