/PHPVerbalExpressions

PHP Regular expressions made easy

Primary LanguagePHPMIT LicenseMIT

##PHPVerbalExpressions

VerbalExpressions is a PHP library that helps to construct hard regular expressions.

// some tests

$regex = new VerbalExpressions;

$regex     ->startOfLine()
        ->then("http")
        ->maybe("s")
        ->then("://")
        ->maybe("www.")
        ->anythingBut(" ")
        ->endOfLine();


if($regex->test("http://github.com"))
    echo "valid url";
else
    echo "invalid url";

if (preg_match($regex, 'http://github.com')) {
    echo 'valid url';
} else {
    echo 'invalud url';
}


echo "<pre>". $regex->getRegex() ."</pre>";



echo $regex ->clean(array("modifiers" => "m", "replaceLimit" => 4))
            ->find(' ')
            ->replace("This is a small test http://somesite.com and some more text.", "-");

Other Implementations

You can see an up to date list of all ports on VerbalExpressions.github.io.

Building the project and running the tests

The project supports Composer so you have to install Composer first before project setup.

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
php composer.phar install --dev
ln -s vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit.php phpunit
./phpunit