Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions

Re:Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, n... by francislavoie on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @07:57PM (#48043561)

We've been using https://github.com/loupe-php/loupe, works quite well for small-to-medium single-instance apps.

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Re:Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, n... by reconnecting on Thursday May 07, 2026 @04:02AM (#48046709)

Loupe seems to have a much longer dependencies list.

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Re:Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, n... by asmodios on Thursday May 07, 2026 @03:18PM (#48053585)

Loupe is a great project and more feature-rich than php-fts (stemming, geo, Damerau-Levenshtein typo tolerance). The dependency difference isn't just about Composer packages. Loupe requires pdo_sqlite and SQLite >= 3.35.0, which isn't guaranteed on shared hosting.

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