##PHPVerbalExpressions

• ported from VerbalExpressions

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.

• Javascript
• Ruby
• C#
• Python
• Java
• C++

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