How does Laravel find plural of models?

Question

If I have a Model \"Dog\", Laravel will link it to the table \"Dogs\". Always the plural. Now, if I have a Model \"Person\", it tries to find the table \"People\" - also the

Answer 1

Laravel 4

In the Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model.php you'll find something like str_plural($name) and str_plural is a helper function which uses Str::plural method and in this case, this method looks like this:

public static function plural($value, $count = 2)
{
    return Pluralizer::plural($value, $count);
}

So it's obvious that, Str::plural uses class Illuminate\Support\Pluralizer.php and there you'll find how it actually works. Just read the source code. There is a separate word mapping for irregular word forms with others:

// Taken from Illuminate\Support\Pluralizer
public static $irregular = array(
    'child' => 'children',
    'foot' => 'feet',
    'freshman' => 'freshmen',
    'goose' => 'geese',
    'human' => 'humans',
    'man' => 'men',
    'move' => 'moves',
    'person' => 'people',
    'sex' => 'sexes',
    'tooth' => 'teeth',
);