<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Inflector Helper : CodeIgniter User Guide</title> <style type='text/css' media='all'>@import url('../userguide.css');</style> <link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' media='all' href='../userguide.css' /> <script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/nav.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/prototype.lite.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/moo.fx.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/user_guide_menu.js"></script> <meta http-equiv='expires' content='-1' /> <meta http-equiv= 'pragma' content='no-cache' /> <meta name='robots' content='all' /> <meta name='author' content='ExpressionEngine Dev Team' /> <meta name='description' content='CodeIgniter User Guide' /> </head> <body> <!-- START NAVIGATION --> <div id="nav"><div id="nav_inner"><script type="text/javascript">create_menu('../');</script></div></div> <div id="nav2"><a name="top"></a><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="myHeight.toggle();"><img src="../images/nav_toggle_darker.jpg" width="154" height="43" border="0" title="Toggle Table of Contents" alt="Toggle Table of Contents" /></a></div> <div id="masthead"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width:100%"> <tr> <td><h1>CodeIgniter User Guide Version 2.0.3</h1></td> <td id="breadcrumb_right"><a href="../toc.html">Table of Contents Page</a></td> </tr> </table> </div> <!-- END NAVIGATION --> <!-- START BREADCRUMB --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width:100%"> <tr> <td id="breadcrumb"> <a href="http://codeigniter.com/">CodeIgniter Home</a> › <a href="../index.html">User Guide Home</a> › Inflector Helper </td> <td id="searchbox"><form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search"><input type="hidden" name="as_sitesearch" id="as_sitesearch" value="codeigniter.com/user_guide/" />Search User Guide <input type="text" class="input" style="width:200px;" name="q" id="q" size="31" maxlength="255" value="" /> <input type="submit" class="submit" name="sa" value="Go" /></form></td> </tr> </table> <!-- END BREADCRUMB --> <br clear="all" /> <!-- START CONTENT --> <div id="content"> <h1>Inflector Helper</h1> <p>The Inflector Helper file contains functions that permits you to change words to plural, singular, camel case, etc.</p> <h2>Loading this Helper</h2> <p>This helper is loaded using the following code:</p> <code>$this->load->helper('inflector');</code> <p>The following functions are available:</p> <h2>singular()</h2> <p>Changes a plural word to singular. Example:</p> <code> $word = "dogs";<br /> echo singular($word); // Returns "dog" </code> <h2>plural()</h2> <p>Changes a singular word to plural. Example:</p> <code> $word = "dog";<br /> echo plural($word); // Returns "dogs" </code> <p>To force a word to end with "es" use a second "true" argument. </p> <code> $word = "pass";<br /> echo plural($word, TRUE); // Returns "passes" </code> <h2>camelize()</h2> <p>Changes a string of words separated by spaces or underscores to camel case. Example:</p> <code> $word = "my_dog_spot";<br /> echo camelize($word); // Returns "myDogSpot" </code> <h2>underscore()</h2> <p>Takes multiple words separated by spaces and underscores them. Example:</p> <code> $word = "my dog spot";<br /> echo underscore($word); // Returns "my_dog_spot" </code> <h2>humanize()</h2> <p>Takes multiple words separated by underscores and adds spaces between them. Each word is capitalized. Example:</p> <code> $word = "my_dog_spot";<br /> echo humanize($word); // Returns "My Dog Spot" </code> </div> <!-- END CONTENT --> <div id="footer"> <p> Previous Topic: <a href="html_helper.html"> HTML Helper</a> · <a href="#top">Top of Page</a> · <a href="../index.html">User Guide Home</a> · Next Topic: <a href="number_helper.html">Number Helper</a> </p> <p><a href="http://codeigniter.com">CodeIgniter</a> · Copyright © 2006 - 2011 · <a href="http://ellislab.com/">EllisLab, Inc.</a></p> </div> </body> </html>