* @author Alex Makarov * @since 2.0 */ class StringHelper { /** * Converts a word to its plural form. * Note that this is for English only! * For example, 'apple' will become 'apples', and 'child' will become 'children'. * @param string $name the word to be pluralized * @return string the pluralized word */ public static function pluralize($name) { $rules = array( '/move$/i' => 'moves', '/foot$/i' => 'feet', '/child$/i' => 'children', '/human$/i' => 'humans', '/man$/i' => 'men', '/tooth$/i' => 'teeth', '/person$/i' => 'people', '/([m|l])ouse$/i' => '\1ice', '/(x|ch|ss|sh|us|as|is|os)$/i' => '\1es', '/([^aeiouy]|qu)y$/i' => '\1ies', '/(?:([^f])fe|([lr])f)$/i' => '\1\2ves', '/(shea|lea|loa|thie)f$/i' => '\1ves', '/([ti])um$/i' => '\1a', '/(tomat|potat|ech|her|vet)o$/i' => '\1oes', '/(bu)s$/i' => '\1ses', '/(ax|test)is$/i' => '\1es', '/s$/' => 's', ); foreach ($rules as $rule => $replacement) { if (preg_match($rule, $name)) { return preg_replace($rule, $replacement, $name); } } return $name . 's'; } /** * Converts a CamelCase name into space-separated words. * For example, 'PostTag' will be converted to 'Post Tag'. * @param string $name the string to be converted * @param boolean $ucwords whether to capitalize the first letter in each word * @return string the resulting words */ public static function camel2words($name, $ucwords = true) { $label = trim(strtolower(str_replace(array('-', '_', '.'), ' ', preg_replace('/(?