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Curated, production-ready, and battle-tested regex patterns for PHP, backed by the regex.to pattern registry.

All patterns are open-source, fully tested, and visualized live on regex.to.

Why regexto/validators?

• 🔍 Tested and Visualized Live: Every single pattern in this library can be searched, tested, and visualized interactively at regex.to.
• 🚀 Zero Dependencies: Pure PHP validation. Lightweight and lightning-fast.
• 📁 JSON Single Source of Truth: Patterns are declared declaratively in standard JSON files shared across multiple languages.

Installation

composer require regexto/validators

Quick Start

1. Basic Validation (PHP)

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use RegexTo\Validators\Validator;

// 1. Quick boolean test (substring match)
$isMatched = Validator::test('email', 'Please contact us at contact@regex.to'); // true

// 2. Strict full-string validation
$isValid = Validator::validate('email', 'contact@regex.to'); // true

2. Smart Type Auto-Detection

Pass an unknown string, and the validator will identify matching formats:

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use RegexTo\Validators\Validator;

$results = Validator::detect('192.168.0.1');
echo $results[0]['pattern']['slug']; // "ipv4"

Available Patterns

Here is a curated subset of the 79+ patterns supported. View all of them and test them live at regex.to/patterns:

License

MIT