Guides
PHPRegex plugs into the tools you already run. Every integration installs one package, registers itself, and starts reporting — the commands below are the target form; until the 2.0.0 tag, the monorepo install covers them all, see the Quick Start.
Static analysis
PHPStan
Reports the regex patterns your target PHP refuses — and, on demand, lint, ReDoS and optimization findings inside static analysis.
composer require --dev php-regex/regex-phpstan
Psalm
Types $matches from the pattern — the shape of the captures, not array<array-key, string> — and reports the patterns your target PHP refuses.
composer require --dev php-regex/regex-psalm
Rector
Rewrites a preg_* call into the string function that does the same, only when the automata prove the two answer alike on every subject.
composer require --dev php-regex/regex-rector
Frameworks
Laravel
The Regex service and facade, with the php artisan regex:lint, regex:routes, regex:explain, regex:compare and regex:transpile commands.
composer require --dev php-regex/regex-laravel
Symfony
The php_regex.regex service, with the bin/console regex:lint, regex:routes, regex:security, regex:analyze, regex:compare and regex:transpile commands.
composer require --dev php-regex/regex-symfony
Editors
LSP
Diagnostics, hovers, completions and code actions for the patterns of PHP files, in any editor that speaks the Language Server Protocol.
composer require --dev php-regex/regex-language-server
The CLI
CLI
Sixteen subcommands to parse, explain, validate, lint, hunt ReDoS, transpile and diagram — also a self-contained PHAR.
composer require --dev php-regex/regex-cli
Deep dives
ReDoS guide
What PHPRegex proves about a pattern — the verdicts, the guarantees, confirmed mode, and how to fix a vulnerable pattern. The redos() API ships in the toolkit.
composer require --dev php-regex/regex-toolkit
Regex in PHP
How PCRE behaves inside preg_* — delimiters, flags, the functions and their return values — no install required, just PHP.