Comments on: Improved pluralizing in PHP, ActionScript, and RoR

By: Rob Morris

Rob Morris — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:56:31 +0000

Perfect. Thanks so much. To anyone finding this post at this late date, you may be interested in a post I wrote that expands on this functionality to do intelligent conditional pluralization on phrases containing a number, eg:

“Buy $num hot dog” => “Buy 1 hot dog” / “Buy 25 hot dogs”

When integrated into Smarty or used to generate vars, can really clean up your code.

Post is here: http://thecodingway.com/blog/robs-tips-and-tricks/php-pluralizing-with-style/

By: Marlin

Marlin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:46:52 +0000

Found a funny one:

complex => complices

Should be complexes, imo. :)

By: Zack

Zack — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:28:20 +0000

Two minor changes to the PHP version that I’ve found useful for pluralizing items in a list of equipment for example “Network Card” to “Network Cards”. Here are the modified last two lines of the $plural array:

‘/s$/’ => “s”,
‘/(\D)$/’ => “$1s”

The first change makes pluralize not convert all caps acronyms that end in an S, such as “Tripp-Lite UPS” to “UPs”. The second change makes it so that an s isn’t tacked onto the end of a word that ends in a number (such as “Microsoft Office 2008″).

By: Rohan

Rohan — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:59:53 +0000

This class (I used the PHP version) has been really useful to me. Slotted it into my code and it worked like a dream. Thanks for sharing it!

By: Brent

Brent — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:56:48 +0000

Amazing class for helping with pluralizing! Thanks you to you and Paul and any others. Was looking to write my own for helping with an abstract interface tieing together models and views, but this is quite polished :D

By: George

George — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:10:50 +0000

Thanks for a great script. Just thought I’d mention that the script bummed out with a syntax error on PHP 5.1.4 running on Redhat EH4. It worked fine for PHP 5.2.9-2 running on XP. I fixed the syntax error by changing the double quotes surrounding the array contents to single quotes (e.g “$1zes” became ‘$1izes’).

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By: Mpdreamz

Mpdreamz — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:25:07 +0000

Bit late but for reference for those who might be wondering how to check if a word is actually plural or not:

public static function is_plural ($string)
{
return Inflect::pluralize($string) == $string;
}
public static function is_singular ($string)
{
return Inflect::singularize($string) == $string;
}

Great Class Btw!