Where is the appropriate place to define inflector rules in CakePHP 1.3?

Question

In CakePHP 1.2, custom inflector rules could be defined in a file app/config/inflections.php. This file was removed in CakePHP 1.3. Instead, the documentation prescribes using the Inflector::rules function to load custom inflections.

There's adequate documentation of how to define the custom inflections themselves, but the documentation gives no context—where to use Inflector::rules.

Should any custom inflections be defined in the bootstrap.php script? At the top of applicable corresponding controllers? Somewhere else?

See also:

Configuration: Inflections in the documentation
Inflector::rules definition in the API documentation

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 19 '10 at 04:27

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The best place is at your bootstrap.php:

Inflector::rules('transliteration', array('/à|á|å|â|ã/' => 'a'));

answered May 19 '10 at 04:27

Eber Freitas Dias

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Care to elaborate why `bootstrap.php` is more appropriate than the other options I suggested? – Daniel Wright May 19 '10 at 19:02

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered May 15 '11 at 12:00

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app/config/bootstrap.php

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As of 1.3, additional rules for the inflector are added below

Says it all really.

answered May 15 '11 at 12:00

Robert Love

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I could change the rule that pluralizes my Payment Request Forms prf into prves, but I'm just changing the name instead :-(. Automation is good, but not -senseless- English-centric automation – George M Reinstate Monica May 25 '17 at 17:01

Where is the appropriate place to define inflector rules in CakePHP 1.3?

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