Comments on: Simple PHP Pluralize

By: Michael Hodgins

Michael Hodgins — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:10:13 +0000

Ooops, the server filtered my php tags. Fair enough I suppose.

By: Michael Hodgins

Michael Hodgins — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:07:24 +0000

Hi. I didn’t use this script but it provided inspiration, so I thought I’d post a few pointers of my own. Don’t take these as criticisms.

First, php short tags aren’t a good idea (I think they’re deprecated in PHP6) as they make the code harder to move from server to server; you should use ” and ‘ instead.

Also, the two statements ‘if ($num == 1) return $single; else return $plural; ‘ can be tidied up by using the ternary operator: ‘return $num == 1 ? $single : $plural;’. Much nicer than that semi-colon in the middle of the line.

By: Colon Cleansing

Colon Cleansing — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:33:06 +0000

Any benefit is lost as soon as one requires to support localizable web sites and guess you don’t need to leave the States for this …

By: Emma Millward

Emma Millward — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:32:38 +0000

Dustin – I just wanted to post you a big thank you for providing such useful code I was hoping to PHP Pluralize functions but found some code very complex, I was looking a Paul’s Osman’s website (based on your post) in regards to the Rails implementation – thankfully with with both yours and Paul’s suggestion contribution was able to get the code working.

Many thanks again, Emma

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:38:15 +0000

Brilliant. Sometimes keeping it simple is the best. I’m getting tired of bloated code.

By: Bill@PHP code snippets forum

Bill@PHP code snippets forum — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:55:20 +0000

Beautifully simple, Davis. I’ve tended to formulate my output so as to not make it as big a deal if I have the plural version or not (“Current users: X” etc), but I might rip you off now.

By: Shaz@Photoshop Tutorials

Shaz@Photoshop Tutorials — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:53:13 +0000

Im glad im more of a front end developer using actionscript 3 with flex i dont usually end up getting involved with these backend tiffs betweent the rails and the hp’s. Nice coding and yes really nerdy so you have my vote

By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:49:58 +0000

I’ve heard of internationalization… do I care? NO. I figured this was an arrogant Rails developer comment just from the tone. Precisely why I opted to learn Django instead. I can’t stand arrogant Rails mentality – too much like the arrogant Mac mentality.

I don’t know how you can say a one liner function is quite “large”. Have you seen Rails’ pluralize function?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:42:48 +0000

Obviously none of you (poster and commenters) heard of internationalization before, do you? This method is still quite “large” (return ($num==1)?$single:$plural;). Any benefit is lost as soon as one requires to support localizable web sites and guess you don’t need to leave the States for this … I’d appreciate to see a pluralizer as used in Rails instead.

By: Jye@Web and graphic design services

Jye@Web and graphic design services — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:43:25 +0000

I use the same, similar, function to complete a task like this.