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”.
Class methods¶
Input
Output
pluralize
Apple, Orange, Person, Man
Apples, Oranges, People, Men
singularize
Apples, Oranges, People, Men
Apple, Orange, Person, Man
camelize
Apple_pie, some_thing, people_person
ApplePie, SomeThing, PeoplePerson
underscore
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.
applePie, someThing
apple_pie, some_thing
humanize
apple_pie, some_thing, people_person
Apple Pie, Some Thing, People Person
tableize
Apple, UserProfileSetting, Person
apples, user_profile_settings, people
classify
apples, user_profile_settings, people
Apple, UserProfileSetting, Person
variable
apples, user_result, people_people
apples, userResult, peoplePeople
slug
Slug converts special characters into latin versions and converting unmatched characters and spaces to underscores. The slug method expects UTF-8 encoding.
apple purée
apple_puree