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placemat/editor
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A clean, elegant, unicode-safe, fluent, immutable, localisable, dependency-free string manipulation library for PHP 7.1+

v2.0.3(5y ago)16.5kMITPHPPHP >=7.1CI failing

Since Aug 5Pushed 5y ago1 watchersCompare

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Editor
======

[](#editor)

[![Editor](https://github.com/helloplacemat/editor/raw/master/readme-header.jpg)](https://github.com/helloplacemat/editor/raw/master/readme-header.jpg)

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A clean, elegant, unicode-safe, fluent, immutable, localisable, dependency-free string manipulation library for PHP 7.1+

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

You can install the package via composer:

```
composer require placemat/editor
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### Create an instance

[](#create-an-instance)

To use Editor, first you've got to instantiate it on your string:

```
echo Editor::create('hello world')->upperCase();

// HELLO WORLD
```

That's a little verbose though, so Editor comes with a global helper function too:

```
echo s('hello world')->upperCase();

// HELLO WORLD
```

### Do some stuff!

[](#do-some-stuff)

Editor is fluent and chainable, so you can just keep adding operations to each other:

```
echo s('    EDITOR is pretty neat I guess 💩      ')
    ->trim()
    ->titleCase();

// Editor is Pretty Neat I Guess 💩
```

Editor is also immutable, so you won't mess up your original instance:

```
$str = s('Apple');

echo $str->plural(); // Apples

echo $str; // Apple
```

Editor implements PHP's `__toString()` magic method, so in most cases you can just use it like a string and it'll work just fine:

```
$str = s('worlds');

echo 'Hello ' . $str->singular()->upperCaseFirst();

// Hello World
```

If you *do* need to get a regular string back for whatever reason, you can either cast an instance of Editor, or call `str()`:

```
$hello = s('Hello World');

(string) $hello; // Will be a string

$hello->str(); // Will also be a string
```

### Title Casing

[](#title-casing)

Editor implements proper title casing, based on [John Gruber's crazy title casing script](https://gist.github.com/gruber/9f9e8650d68b13ce4d78):

```
s('this is a headline that will be properly title-cased')->titleCase();

// This Is a Headline That Will Be Properly Title-Cased
```

If you're after what other libraries so boldly claim is title case, you want `upperCaseFirst()`:

```
s('this is not actually title casing')->upperCaseFirst();

// This Is Not Actually Title-casing
```

### Inflection

[](#inflection)

Editor supports making a string singular or plural:

```
s('apples')->singular(); // 'apple'

s('apple')->plural(); // 'apples'

// plural also has a $count parameter, in case you need to pluralize dynamically
s('apple')->plural($count); // 'apple' if $count is 1, 'apples' otherwise
```

Inflections are localizable in Editor. Right now, Editor supports 6 languages:

- English ('en')
- Spanish ('es')
- French ('fr')
- Portuguese ('pt')
- Norwegian Bokmal ('nb')
- Turkish ('tr')

```
s('bijou')->plural($count, 'fr'); // 'bijoux'
```

> If you'd like to add an inflector, simply
>
> - Extend `Hipsterjazzbo\Editor\Inflectors\Inflector`
> - Register with `Editor::registerInflector($inflector)`
> - That's it!
>
> If you do add inflectors, feel free to open a Pull Request!

Function Reference
------------------

[](#function-reference)

Full function reference documentation is probably something I should write. But for now, you can peruse [the main Editor class](/src/Editor.php). Every method is doc-blocked and tested 👍

###  Health Score

31

—

LowBetter than 68% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity19

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~73 days

Recently: every ~137 days

Total

10

Last Release

2181d ago

Major Versions

v0.1.1-beta → v1.02018-08-10

v1.0.3 → v2.0.02020-04-01

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5f7f507b3da5a01b1cdb32f8185d5e45445135a835e807e170922ceba4b82fd9?d=identicon)[HipsterJazzbo](/maintainers/HipsterJazzbo)

---

Top Contributors

[![hipsterjazzbo](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/231361?v=4)](https://github.com/hipsterjazzbo "hipsterjazzbo (35 commits)")

---

Tags

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