Commit 9d3e293c by mdomba (mdwork)

added more rules for proper pluralization

parent 86ae5bdf
......@@ -22,21 +22,33 @@ class Text
{
/**
* 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',
'/(m)an$/i' => '\1en',
'/(child)$/i' => '\1ren',
'/(r)y$/i' => '\1ies',
'/(shea|lea|loa|thie)f$/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 => $replacement)
{
foreach ($rules as $rule => $replacement) {
if (preg_match($rule, $name)) {
return preg_replace($rule, $replacement, $name);
}
......@@ -65,6 +77,6 @@ class Text
*/
public static function name2id($name)
{
return trim(strtolower(str_replace('_','-',preg_replace('/(?<![A-Z])[A-Z]/', '-\0', $name))),'-');
return trim(strtolower(str_replace('_', '-', preg_replace('/(?<![A-Z])[A-Z]/', '-\0', $name))), '-');
}
}
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