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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.

static Inflector::pluralize($singular)

  • 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.

static Inflector::singularize($plural)

  • 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.

static Inflector::camelize($underscored)

  • Input: Apple_pie, some_thing, people_person

  • Output: ApplePie, SomeThing, PeoplePerson

static Inflector::underscore($camelCase)

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

static Inflector::humanize($underscored)

  • Input: apple_pie, some_thing, people_person

  • Output: Apple Pie, Some Thing, People Person

static Inflector::tableize($camelCase)

  • Input: Apple, UserProfileSetting, Person

  • Output: apples, user_profile_settings, people

static Inflector::classify($underscored)

  • Input: apples, user_profile_settings, people

  • Output: Apple, UserProfileSetting, Person

static Inflector::variable($underscored)

  • Input: apples, user_result, people_people

  • Output: apples, userResult, peoplePeople

static Inflector::slug($word, $replacement = '_')

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

static Inflector::reset

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

static Inflector::rules($type, $rules, $reset = false)

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