NameCompare.php

<?php

/**
 * Description of NameCompare 
 *
 * @abstract                    String/Name compare with metaphone like soundex
 * @return                          Percentage  of matching with two string
 * @description                     [The metaphone() function calculates the metaphone key of a string. 
 *                                  It's more accurate than soundex() as it knows the basic rules of English pronunciation.
 *                                  The metaphone() function can be used for spelling applications.]
 * @author                         <anowar@batworld.com>
 * @date                           04-August-2015
 * @link                           http://php.net/manual/en/function.metaphone.php
 * @similar                        Similar to soundex()
 * 
 */
class NameCompare
    {

            public function NameComp($src1 = '', $src2 = '') 
                        {
                                    $src1a = $this->name2ArrayMeta($src1);
                                    $src2a = $this->name2ArrayMeta($src2);

                                    if (count($src1a) > count($src2a)) {
                                        $t = count($src1a);
                                        $d = count(array_diff($src1a, $src2a));
                                    } else {
                                        $t = count($src2a);
                                        $d = count(array_diff($src2a, $src1a));
                                    }

                                    return (($t - $d) / $t) * 100;
                        }

            function name2ArrayMeta($name)
                        {
                                    $string1 = preg_split("/[\s,.-]+/", strtolower($name));
                                    $names = array();

                                    foreach ($string1 as $row):
                                        if ($row == "md") 
                                            {
                                                        $names[] = metaphone('mohammad');
                                            }
                                            else if ($row == "mst") 
                                                {
                                                        //$names[]=metaphone('mohammad');
                                                }
                                                else if (strlen($row) > 2) 
                                                {
                                                        if (substr($row, 0, 1) == "j")
                                                                $row = "z" . substr($row, 1);
                                                        
                                                        $names[] = metaphone($row);
                                                }
                                            endforeach;

                                    return $names;
                        }

    }

$comp = new NameCompare();
$string_1 = 'mohammed Anowar Hossain';
$string_2 = 'muhammad Anwar Hosain';

echo $string_1 . '<br/>';
echo $string_2 . '<hr/>';

echo $comp->NameComp($string_1, $string_2) . '% match'; //Call function with both string