Inflector

class Inflector

The Inflector class takes a string and can manipulate it to handle word variations such as pluralizations or camelizing and is normally accessed statically. Example: Inflector::pluralize('example') returns "examples".

You can try out the inflections online at inflector.cakephp.org.

Input: Apple, Orange, Person, Man
Output: Apples, Oranges, People, Men

NOTE

pluralize() may not always correctly convert a noun that is already in it's plural form.

Input: Apples, Oranges, People, Men
Output: Apple, Orange, Person, Man

NOTE

singularize() may not always correctly convert a noun that is already in it's singular form.

Input: Apple_pie, some_thing, people_person
Output: ApplePie, SomeThing, PeoplePerson

It should be noted that underscore will only convert camelCase formatted words. Words that contains spaces will be lower-cased, but will not contain an underscore.

Input: applePie, someThing
Output: apple_pie, some_thing
Input: apple_pie, some_thing, people_person
Output: Apple Pie, Some Thing, People Person
Input: Apple, UserProfileSetting, Person
Output: apples, user_profile_settings, people
Input: apples, user_profile_settings, people
Output: Apple, UserProfileSetting, Person
Input: apples, user_result, people_people
Output: apples, userResult, peoplePeople

Slug converts special characters into latin versions and converting unmatched characters and spaces to underscores. The slug method expects UTF-8 encoding.

Input: apple purée
Output: apple_puree

Resets Inflector back to its initial state, useful in testing.

Define new inflection and transliteration rules for Inflector to use. See Inflection Configuration for more information.

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