What is it?

With this bundle you get an incredible powerful backend to parse any text and identify bible verses within it. It works with symphony but also with any other composer system. The bible verses are not only recognized, but intelligently seperated into book, chapter and vers-ranges.

I am using it in a big installation to store and index bible verses in the database and perform very quick and complex searches.

Features

The library recognizes all kind of different texts as bible verses in german and in english. For example:

• 1Tim 3,16

• 1 Tim 3,16f (one following verse)

• 1 Tim 3,15-16 (multiple verses as range joined by "-")

• 1 Tim 3,16ff (following verses with "ff" until to the chapters end)

• 1 Timotheus 3,16 (long naming convention)

• 1 Tim 3,15.16 (multiple verses joined with ".")

• 1 Tim 3,15+16 (multiple verses joined with "+")

• 1. Timothy 3,16 (preceding "1." convention)

• I Timothy 3,16 (preceding "I" convention / with or without ".")

• First Timothy 3,16 (preceding "First" convention)

• 1st Timothy 3,16 (preceding "1st" convention)

• 1.Timotheusbrief 3,16 (german long naming convention)

• 1 Ti 3,16 (different short naming conventions)

• 1Tim 3,16-4,2 (ranges over multiple chapters)

• 1Tim 3 (whole Chapter)

Examples

The texts are recognized and parsed into valid integers. For 1Tim 3,16-17 this would be:

Parsed-Text	Book-Id	From Chapter	From Verse	To Chapter	To Verse
1Tim 3,15-16	54	3	15	3	16
1Tim 3,15f	54	3	15	3	16
1Tim 3,16-4,2	54	3	16	4	2
1Tim 3	54	3	1	3	16
1Tim 3-4	54	3	1	4	16

Storage and search optimization

Internally the bible verses are stored as two numbers which describe a range (start - end). This makes it possible so index bible verses and search for intersecting bible verses super quickly.

START and END are set together as three-digit codes:

Book-ID	Chapter-Number	Verse-Number
(three digits, zero padded)	(three digits, zero padded)	(three digits, zero padded)

Which results in this indexing:

Parsed-Text	Book-Id	From Chapter	From Verse	To Chapter	To Verse	START	END
1Tim 3,15-16	54	3	15	3	16	054003015	054003016
1Tim 3,15f	54	3	15	3	16	054003015	054003016
1Tim 3,16-4,2	54	3	16	4	2	054003016	054004002
1Tim 3	54	3	1	3	16	054003001	054003016
1Tim 3-4	54	3	1	4	16	054003001	054004016

Usage

Parsing text to BibleVerses Entities

$service = new BibleVerseService();
$found = $service->stringToBibleVerse('1Tim 3,16');

Formatting BibleVerses Entities as Text

Language German and English are supported by default

foreach($found as $bibleverse){
	// long labels
	echo $service->bibleVerseToString($bibleverse);
	
	// or short labels
	echo $service->bibleVerseToString($bibleverse, 'short');
}

Extracting bible verses as BibleVerse entities from larger texts

$found = $service->stringToBibleVerse('Hello. I learned from 2Tim 3,16 that it differs from Gen 1,1');
// --> $found will be an array with two recognized bibleverses

$rest = $service->getLastRestString();
// --> $rest will be the remaining string, without the found bibleverses = "Hello. I learned from that it differs from "

Join multiple BibleVerse Entities together

// Join biblevereses
$found = $service->stringToBibleVerse('Hello. I learned from 2Tim 3,16 that it differs from 2Tim 3,17');
// --> $found will be an array with two recognized bibleverses
$merged = $service->mergeBibleverses($found);
// --> $merged will be an array with ONE bibleverse. Both verses where merged into 2Tim 3,16-17

Accessing BibleVerse start and end number

	/**
	 * @return int
	 */
	public function getStart() {
		return $this->start;
	}

	/**
	 * @return int
	 */
	public function getEnd() {
		return $this->end;
	}

BibleVerse Interface

Bible verses are valid BibleVerseInterface instances. Which means they can be extended and come with these default functions

	/**
	 * Set From and To bookId
	 * @param integer $bookId
	 */
	public function setBookId($bookId);

	/**
	 * Get bookId
	 * @return int
	 */
	public function getFromBookId();

	/**
	 * Get bookId
	 * @return int
	 */
	public function getToBookId();

	/**
	 * Set $fromBookId
	 * @param integer $fromBookId
	 */
	public function setFromBookId($fromBookId);

	/**
	 * Set $toBookId
	 * @param integer $toBookId
	 */
	public function setToBookId($toBookId);


	/**
	 * Set fromChapter
	 * @param integer $fromChapter
	 */
	public function setFromChapter($fromChapter);

	/**
	 * Get fromChapter
	 * @return int
	 */
	public function getFromChapter();

	/**
	 * Set toChapter
	 * @param integer $toChapter
	 */
	public function setToChapter($toChapter);

	/**
	 * Get toChapter
	 * @return int
	 */
	public function getToChapter();

	/**
	 * Set fromVerse
	 * @param integer $fromVerse
	 */
	public function setFromVerse($fromVerse);

	/**
	 * Get fromVerse
	 * @return int
	 */
	public function getFromVerse();

	/**
	 * Set toVerse
	 *
	 * @param integer $toVerse
	 */
	public function setToVerse($toVerse);

	/**
	 * Get toVerse
	 *
	 * @return int
	 */
	public function getToVerse();

	/**
	 * @param int      $bookId
	 * @param int      $fromChapter
	 * @param int      $fromVerse
	 * @param int|NULL $toChapter
	 * @param int|NULL $toVerse
	 */
	public function setVerse($bookId, $fromChapter, $fromVerse, $toChapter = NULL, $toVerse = NULL);

JavaScript

There is also a JavaScript library for parsing bible verses and use it i.e. for markdown purposes.

Generating Javascript-Library-Updates

The JavaScript library is generated with the command:

php ./js/Generator/cmd.php