Dictionaries

Tab for managing phpMorphy morphological dictionaries.

Purpose

Morphological dictionaries enable search by word forms. E.g. searching for “phones” also finds “phone”, “phones”, etc.

Requirements

mSearch needs at least one morphological dictionary. Without dictionaries, word-form search will not work.

Button	Description
Install	Download and install dictionary
Remove	Remove installed dictionary

Dictionaries are downloaded from GitHub (seoservice2020/phpmorphy).

Composer package

mSearch uses the cijic/phpmorphy library — a modern phpMorphy fork installed via Composer.

After installing a new dictionary:

This ensures the new dictionary is used correctly.

Dictionaries are stored in:

core/components/msearch/phpmorphy/dicts/

Each dictionary is a set of .mrd, .fsa, and meta.json files.

If no dictionaries are installed:

For multilingual sites install all needed dictionaries. mSearch detects the word language and uses the right dictionary.

Site in Russian and English:

When searching:

Disk space

Ensure enough disk space for dictionaries.