This stem extension for PHP provides stemming capability for a variety of languages using Dr. M.F. Porter's Snowball API.
It has a much simpler API than the stem extension found in pecl.
<?php
echo stemword('cats', 'english', 'UTF_8'); # cat
echo stemword('stemming', 'english', 'UTF_8'); # stem
?>
The stemmer PHP extension can be installed following the instructions about building PHP extensions using phpize as described in the PHP manual.
To build this extension, you need to have the PHP development tools installed. For ubuntu/debian you can use apt-get install php5-dev.
The phpize command is used to prepare the build environment for a PHP extension.
In the following sample, the sources for an extension are in a directory named stemmer-php:
# git clone https://github.com/hthetiot/php-stemmer.git
# cd php-stemmer
# phpize
# ./configure
# make -C libstemmer_c
# make
# [sudo] make install
Edit you php.ini file and add the line extension=stemmer.so
The stemmer PHP extension uses a modified version of libstemmer_c.
It has replaced the default Dutch stemming algorithm with the much better Kraaij-Pohlmann Dutch stemming algorithm. The modified version of this lib can be downloaded from mysqludf.com.
This version is a fork of php-stemmer hosted on Google Code orinaly made by Javeline B.V and available here: http://code.google.com/p/php-stemmer/
See License file for details