Inflector Helper

Provides methods for working with the pluralization and singularization of words as well as other methods to work with phrases.

uncountable($string) checks whether the given string is an uncountable word. Returns TRUE or FALSE. This method uses a words list from the inflector.php file, located into the system/i18n/en_EN/ folder (or the language specified in the config item 'locale.language')

• [string] word to check

inflector::uncountable('money'); //returns TRUE
inflector::uncountable('book'); //returns FALSE

singular($str, $count = NULL) will attempt to singularize the given string. Returns the string. If a string is uncountable it will return the string without modification.

Note: this function works for English words only.

• [string] word to singularize
• [integer] number of things - default NULL

inflector::singular('books'); //returns 'book'
inflector::singular('books',0); //returns 'books'

plural($str, $count = NULL) will attempt to pluralize the given string. Returns the string. If a string is uncountable it will return the string without modification.

Note: this function works for English words only.

• [string] word to pluralize
• [integer] number of things - default NULL

inflector::plural('book'); //returns 'books'
inflector::plural('book',1); //returns 'book'

camelize($str) will attempt to camelize the given string. Returns the string.

• [string] phrase to camelize

inflector::camelize('system_initialization'); //returns 'systemInitialization'
inflector::camelize('system initialization'); //returns 'systemInitialization'

underscore($str) makes a phrase underscored instead of spaced. Returns the string.

• [string] phrase to underscore

inflector::underscore('Underscores a phrase.'); //returns Underscores_a_phrase.'

humanize($str) makes a phrase human-readable instead of dashed or underscored. Returns the string.

• [string] phrase to make human-readable

inflector::humanize('Remove_underscores_from_a_phrase.'); //returns 'Remove underscores from a phrase.'
inflector::humanize('Remove-dashes-from-a-phrase.'); //returns 'Remove dashes from a phrase.'