Inflector

Implement the Trax naming convention

Walt Haas

haas@xmission.com

Introduction

Conversion Examples

Find Table Name For This Class

Find Class Name For A Table

Generate User Friendly Description Of A Table

Find Foreign Key For A Class

Introduction

This class provides static methods to implement the Trax naming convention. Inflector is never instantiated.

Conversion Examples

Find Table Name For This Class

class OrderDetail extends ActiveRecord { function __construct() { $table_name = Inflector::tableize(get_class()); // $table_name is now "order_details" } }

Find Class Name For A Table

$class_name = Inflector::classify("people"); // $class_name is now "Person"

Generate User Friendly Description Of A Table

$readable_name = Inflector::humanize("monthly_reports"); // $readable_name is now "Monthly Reports"

Find Foreign Key For A Class

$key_name = Inflector::foreign_key("PartNumber"); // $key_name is now "part_number_id"

Inflector

Implement the Trax naming convention

Table of Contents

Introduction

Conversion Examples

Find Table Name For This Class

Find Class Name For A Table

Generate User Friendly Description Of A Table

Find Foreign Key For A Class