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cawa0505/verbal-expressions-php
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PHP Regular expressions made easy.

v1.0.0(7y ago)0951MITPHPPHP >=5.5.9

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Verbal Expressions-PHP
======================

[](#verbal-expressions-php)

- Forked from the original [PHP Verbal Expressions](https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/PHPVerbalExpressions) library.
- Ported from [VerbalExpressions](https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions).

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

Examples
--------

[](#examples)

```
$regex = new VerbalExpressions;

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

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

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

echo "". $regex->getRegex() ."";

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

Other Implementations
---------------------

[](#other-implementations)

You can see an up to date list of all ports on [VerbalExpressions.github.io](http://VerbalExpressions.github.io).

- [Javascript](https://github.com/jehna/VerbalExpressions)
- [Ruby](https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/RubyVerbalExpressions)
- [C#](https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/CSharpVerbalExpressions)
- [Python](https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/PythonVerbalExpressions)
- [Java](https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JavaVerbalExpressions)
- [C++](https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/CppVerbalExpressions)

Building the project and running the tests
------------------------------------------

[](#building-the-project-and-running-the-tests)

All tests are written using PHPUnit. Please ensure that you have it installed and run all tests before contributing.

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 41% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity9

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity55

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

2636d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3434037?v=4)[Jimmy Yen](/maintainers/cawa0505)[@cawa0505](https://github.com/cawa0505)

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Top Contributors

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