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The Zend implementation of Lucene provides a powerful tool set for those looking to implement a Google-like search for their PHP web application. One of the requirements in creating a Google-like search with Zend is the creation of a stemming, stop word filtering, lower-casing analyzer. This article will briefly discuss the basic role of an analyzer in the Lucene API, my implementation of a new “StandardAnalyzer” for the Zend_Search_Lucene component of the Zend Framework, the inner workings of this analyzer, and its basic usage.