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james2doyle/common-regex-php
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Find a lot of kinds of common information in a string

3142PHP

Since Jan 21Pushed 7y ago1 watchersCompare

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CommonRegexPHP
==============

[](#commonregexphp)

> Migrated from [talyssonoc/CommonRegexJS](https://github.com/talyssonoc/CommonRegexJS)

[CommonRegex](https://github.com/madisonmay/CommonRegex/ "CommonRegex") port for PHP

Find a lot of kinds of common information in a string.

Pull requests welcome!

Please note that this is currently English/US specific.

Usage
=====

[](#usage)

```
composer require james2doyle/common-regex-php

```

Then somewhere in the code:

```
$parser = new CommonRegexPHP;
$results = $parse('See you at 12:00AM on March 22nd 2018');
// returns [
//     'dates' => [
//         'March 22nd 2018',
//     ],
//     'times' => [
//         '12:00AM',
//     ],
// ]

// shorthand
$results = (new CommonRegexPHP)('See you at 12:00AM on March 22nd 2018');
```

Running Tests
=============

[](#running-tests)

```
composer install
composer run test

```

CommonRegex Ports
=================

[](#commonregex-ports)

There are CommonRegex ports for other languages, see [here](https://github.com/madisonmay/CommonRegex/#commonregex-ports "CommonRegex ports")

###  Health Score

21

—

LowBetter than 19% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity38

Early-stage or recently created project

 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.

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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