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sebk/plural
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1.1.1(3y ago)032MITPHP

Since Oct 8Pushed 3y agoCompare

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### Overview

[](#overview)

Plural is a library that provides natural language pluralization functions for PHP. The library currently supports the following languages:

- English

However, Plural can easily be extended to support any language. If your language is not supported, you are encouraged to contribute a rules file to the project.

### Usage

[](#usage)

```
plural('dog');      # dogs
plural('matrix');   # matrices
plural('mouse');    # mice
plural('person');   # people
plural('sheep');    # sheep

```

### Tests

[](#tests)

Plural uses the [PHPUnit](http://www.phpunit.de/) unit testing framework to test the code. In order to run the tests, do the following from the project root directory:

```
$ phpunit tests/Plural.php

```

### Requirements

[](#requirements)

Plural requires PHP version 5 or greater.

### License

[](#license)

Plural is released under the terms of the MIT license. Please read the LICENSE file for further information.

###  Health Score

23

—

LowBetter than 27% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity49

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 75% 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 ~1 days

Total

3

Last Release

1317d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/45cdb3e169cfc71f586543af872d5a48416b21c4ebb43060bcb8c96eebf3ff5d?d=identicon)[sebk69](/maintainers/sebk69)

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Top Contributors

[![mjackson](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/92839?v=4)](https://github.com/mjackson "mjackson (18 commits)")[![sebk69](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6600508?v=4)](https://github.com/sebk69 "sebk69 (6 commits)")

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