$re = '/^(?P<repository>[\w.\-_]+((?::\d+|)(?=/[a-z0-9._-]+/[a-z0-9._-]+))|)(?:/|)(?P<image>[a-z0-9.\-_]+(?:/[a-z0-9.\-_]+|))(:(?P<tag>[\w.\-_]{1,127})|)$/mi';
$str = 'alpine
alpine:latest
_/alpine
_/alpine:latest
alpine:3.7
docker.example.com/gmr/alpine:3.7
docker.example.com:5000/gmr/alpine:latest
pse/anabroker:latest';
preg_match_all($re, $str, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER, 0);
// Print the entire match result
var_dump($matches);
Please keep in mind that these code samples are automatically generated and are not guaranteed to work. If you find any syntax errors, feel free to submit a bug report. For a full regex reference for PHP, please visit: http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php