SMRTR ProgrammingJul 5, 2026Daily.dev

Using a vector database with PHP

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PHP's 80+ array functions are notoriously hard to discover by name alone, so this tutorial builds a local semantic search engine using Vektor (a pure PHP vector database) and Ollama for offline embeddings. You parse the PHP manual HTML files, generate 768-dimensional vectors per function, index them, and query in plain English — no cloud, no API keys, no external dependencies.

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