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Package php-unstructured-text-parser
Short Description A PHP library to help extract text out of text documents
License MIT
Homepage https://github.com/aymanrb/php-unstructured-text-parser
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Unstructured Text Parser [PHP]
About Unstructured Text Parser
This is a small PHP library to help extract text out of documents that are not structured in a processing friendly format. When you want to parse text out of form generated emails for example you can create a template matching the expected incoming mail format while specifying the variable text elements and leave the rest for the class to extract your pre-formatted variables out of the incoming mails' body text.
Useful when you want to parse data out of:
- Emails generated from web forms
- Documents with definable templates / expressions
Installation
PHP Unstructured Text Parser is available on Packagist (using semantic versioning), and installation via Composer is recommended.
Add the following line to your composer.json file:
or run
Usage example
Parsing Procedure
1- Grab a single copy of the text you want to parse.
2- Replace every single varying text within it to a named variable in the form of {%VariableName%} if you want to match
everything in this part of text or {%VariableName:Pattern%} if you want to match a specific set of characters or use a more
precise pattern.
3- Add the templates file into the templates directory (defined in parsing code) with a txt extension fileName.txt
4- Pass the text you wish to parse to the parse method of the class and let it do the magic for you.
Template Example
If the text documents you want to parse looks like this:
Your Template file (example_template.txt) could be something like:
The output of a successful parsing job would be:
Upgrading from v1.x to v2.x
Version 2.0 is more or less a refactored copy of version 1.x of the library and provides the exact same functionality. There is just one slight difference in the results returned. It's now a parsed data object instead of an array. To get the results as an array like it used to be in v1.x simply call "getParsedRawData()" on the returned object.
