Pluralization and irregular words

posted 10 years ago

Hello! I am just starting with Laravel, and I have a question on how to solve this "the right way".

I have lots of words in spanish that the plural is not simply appending an "s" in the end, for example, the plural for "Especialidad" is "Especialidades", or the plural for "ObraSocial" is "ObrasSociales".

I'm seeing that there is src/Illuminate/Support/Pluralizer.php with an $irregular array. Is the correct way to add that words in this array (I don't think so..), or is there any other place from where I can put all the words that I need to use?

thanks!

Last updated 3 years ago.

tortuetorche

replied 8 years ago

Hi Ricardo,

Here how to pluralize or singularize irregular strings (based on old Laravel 4 issue #2101) for Laravel 4:

<?php
// Fails:
// echo str_plural('bureau');// → 'bureaus'

$newIrregular = ['bureau' => 'bureaux'];
$oldIrregular = \Illuminate\Support\Pluralizer::$irregular;
\Illuminate\Support\Pluralizer::$irregular = array_merge($oldIrregular, $newIrregular);

// Success:
echo str_plural('bureau');// → 'bureaux'

Cheers, Tortue Torche

Last updated 8 years ago.

tortuetorche

replied 8 years ago

And here how to pluralize or singularize irregular strings for Laravel 5:

// Fails:
// echo str_plural('bureau');// → 'bureaus'

$newIrregularRules = ['bureau' => 'bureaux'];
\Doctrine\Common\Inflector\Inflector::rules('plural', [
    'irregular' => $newIrregularRules
]);

// Success:
echo str_plural('bureau');// → 'bureaux'

Last updated 8 years ago.

tortuetorche

replied 8 years ago

I think this topic can be marked as solved.

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