[Corpora-List] Open-source PHP concordancer?

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Sat Nov 26 11:45:14 UTC 2005


Sorry, I always get that wrong. Make it

http://xaira.sf.net


Lou Burnard wrote:

> 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
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> Samuel Henderson wrote:
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>> 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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