Example.php

<?php
/**
 * Verbal Expressions v0.1 (https://github.com/jehna/VerbalExpressions) ported in PHP
 * @author Mihai Ionut Vilcu (ionutvmi@gmail.com)
 * 22.July.2013
 */

$loader = require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

$regex = new \VerbalExpressions\PHPVerbalExpressions\VerbalExpressions();

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

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

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


echo "<hr>";

// limit
echo $regex ->clean(array("modifiers" => "m"))
            ->startOfLine()
            ->anyOf("abc")
            ->anythingBut(" ")
            ->limit(1)
            ->withAnyCase()
            ->replace("Abracadabra is a nice word", "Ba");

echo "<br>";



echo $regex ->clean(array("modifiers" => "gm"))
            ->add("\b")
            ->word()
            ->limit(2, 3)
            ->add("\b")
            ->replace("test abc ab abcd", "*");