public static function wordIsPlural($word)
{
// check if plural is in special word list
if( \MwbExporter\Helper\SpecialWordList::getSingularOf($word)){
return true;
}
return strlen($word) > 1 && self::wordEndsWith($word, 's') && !self::wordEndsWith($word, 'ss') && !self::wordEndsWith($word, 'us');
}
public static function singularize($word)
{
if($tmpWord = \MwbExporter\Helper\SpecialWordList::getSingularOf($word)){
return ucfirst($tmpWord);
}
$word = self::stripWordEnd($word, 's');
// we can't just strip the s without looking at the remaining English plural endings
// see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_plural
// if the table name ends with "e" ("coache", "hashe", "addresse", "buzze", "heroe", ...)
if ( self::wordEndsWith($word, 'che')
or self::wordEndsWith($word, 'she')
or self::wordEndsWith($word, 'sse')
or self::wordEndsWith($word, 'zze')
or self::wordEndsWith($word, 'oe') ) {
// strip an "e", too
$word = self::stripWordEnd($word, 'e');
// if table name ends with "ie"
} elseif ( self::wordEndsWith($word, 'ie') ) {
// replace "ie" by a "y" ("countrie" -> "country", "hobbie" -> "hobby", ...)
$word = self::stripWordEnd($word, 'ie') . 'y';
} elseif ( self::wordEndsWith($word, 've') ) {
// replace "ve" by an "f" ("calve" -> "calf", "leave" -> "leaf", ...)
$word = self::stripWordEnd($word, 've') . 'f';
// does *not* work for certain words ("knive" -> "knif", "stave" -> "staf", ...)
} else {
// do nothing ("game", "referee", "monkey", ...)
// note: table names like "Caches" can't be handled correctly because of the "che" rule above,
// that word however basically stems from French and might be considered a special case anyway
// also collective names like "Personnel", "Cast" (caution: SQL keyword!) can't be singularized
}
return $word;
}