PHP-fts
Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions
Details
- External ID
- 48041316
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- PHP-fts
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 89
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8949919224555735
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- web development and browser utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- full-text search for php
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Inverted indexing, text tokenization, and BM25 ranking algorithms in pure PHP are well-understood computer science patterns that LLMs can generate with ease.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: DuckDB with Full-Text Search extension, Meilisearch, Typesense, Loupe, TNTSearch
Concerns raised: Requires native extensions (DuckDB, Loupe need pdo_sqlite and SQLite >= 3.35.0), Not suitable for static sites (server-side indexing needed), Dependency management can hide undeclared transitive dependencies in production, Lacks stemming and advanced features like geo or typo tolerance
Feature requests: Comparative benchmarks on filter performance for SQLite FTS case, Documentation of PHPUnit version requirements, German umlaut support (ä ö ü)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 353 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #26 of 354 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 189 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.