Comments on: 5 way(s) to pluralize

By: Per Wiklander

Per Wiklander — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:20:10 +0000

Ok, that would be:

Usage:

I know

By: Per Wiklander

Per Wiklander — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:16:18 +0000

My pluralize function in PHP.

Usage:

I know

function pluralize( $count, $zero, $singular, $plural ) {
if($count == 1) {
return sprintf( $singular, $count );
}

if($count > 1) {
return sprintf( $plural, $count );
}

return sprintf( $zero, $count );
}

By: George

George — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:45:11 +0000

Bit of inline PHP, which also pluralizes in the case of 0 (your search returned 0 results).

your search returned result1?'s':'';?>

By: George

George — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:41:53 +0000

Bit of inline PHP, which also pluralizes in the case of 0 (your search returned 0 results).

your search returned result1?’s':”;?>

By: Sohail Amir

Sohail Amir — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 02:06:46 +0000

Thanks for this, exactly what I was looking for and the code works perfectly!

By: Shaun

Shaun — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:19:01 +0000

Love Rails

pluralize(1, ‘person’)
# => 1 person

pluralize(2, ‘person’)
# => 2 people

pluralize(3, ‘person’, ‘users’)
# => 3 users

pluralize(0, ‘person’)
# => 0 people

By: James

James — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:34:30 +0000

# File actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb, line 183

def pluralize(count, singular, plural = nil)
“#{count || 0} ” + ((count == 1 || count == ’1′) ? singular : (plural || singular.pluralize))
end

Welcome to the Rails community.

By: James

James — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:17:18 +0000

The same as yours, in one line, but yes a little less understandable:

function pluralize($count, $singular, $plural = false)
{
return ($count == 1 ? $singular : ($plural ? $plural : $singular . ‘s’)) ;
}

By: Paul Osman

Paul Osman — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 02:33:28 +0000

Shamelessly lifted from the rails inflector class:

http://paulosman.com/node/23

By: Jody

Jody — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:53:52 +0000

I wrote this function today after not finding one in the PHP manual. I tried a few test cases but I’m no grammar expert so I may have missed some conditions. It’s really hard to tell how to pluralize words ending in ‘o’, so a lot of those might not work well. Also, for the words in the $irregulars array, the comparison is case sensitive, so you may have to add your own formatting in there. It’s not perfect, but it’s not bad for 10 mintues. If you see any more irregulars I am missing please post them in response.

function pluralize($string)
{
$irregulars = array(‘man’ => ‘men’, ‘woman’ => ‘women’, ‘fungus’ => ‘fungi’, ‘thief’ => ‘thieves’, ‘species’ => ‘species’,
‘medium’ => ‘media’,'person’ => ‘people’, ‘echo’ => ‘echoes’, ‘hero’ => ‘heroes’, ‘potato’ => ‘potatoes’,
‘veto’ => ‘vetoes’, ‘auto’ => ‘autos’, ‘memo’ => ‘memos’, ‘pimento’ => ‘pimentos’, ‘pro’ => ‘pros’);

$es = array(‘s’, ‘z’, ‘ch’, ‘sh’, ‘x’);

$last_letter = $string{strlen($string) – 1};

if(array_key_exists($string, $irregulars))
{
return $irregulars[$string];
}
else if($last_letter == ‘y’)
{
if($string{strlen($string) – 2} == ‘e’)
return substr($string, 0, strlen($string) – 2) . ‘ies’;
else
return substr($string, 0, strlen($string) – 1) . ‘ies’;
}
else if(in_array(substr($string,0,-2),$es) || in_array($last_letter, $es))
{
return $string . ‘es’;
}
else
{
return $string . ‘s’;
}
}