README

Requirements

PHP >= 5.3

Installation

In order to use this library on another project, you must add the kanjidic2 dictionary file as a Composer repository:

"repositories": [
    {
        "type":"package",
        "package": {
            "name": "kanjidic2/kanjidic2",
            "version": "2.0",
            "dist": {
                "url": "http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/kanjidic2/kanjidic2.xml.gz",
                "type": "file"
            }
        }
    }
],

Require this library using composer:

composer require albertofem/kanjidic2-lib

Install it:

composer update albertofem/kanjidic2-lib

Test everything is ok:

php vendor/albertofem/kanjidic2-lib/bin/kanjidic kanjidic:dictionary:show vendor/kanjidic2/kanjidic2/kanjidic2.xml.gz

You should see a large list of kanjis followed by the total count in the dictionary:

...

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Total dictionary entries: 13108

Usage

Create new Kanjidic instance:

<?php

use AFM\Kanjidic\Kanjidic;

$kanjidic = new Kanjidic("vendor/kanjidic2/kanjidic2/kanjidic2.xml.gz")

$kanji = $kanjidic->lookByLiteral("世");

See Kanjidic class for more lookup methods

License

This library is under the MIT license.