Procedural File: ArGender.class.php

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Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Khaled Al-Shamaa.

http://www.ar-php.org

PHP Version 5

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LICENSE

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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

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Class Name: Arabic Gender Guesser

Filename: ArGender.class.php

Original Author(s): Khaled Al-Sham'aa <khaled.alshamaa@gmail.com>

Purpose: This class attempts to guess the gender of Arabic names

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Arabic Gender Guesser

This PHP class attempts to guess the gender of Arabic names.

Arabic nouns are either masculine or feminine. Usually when referring to a male, a masculine noun is usually used and when referring to a female, a feminine noun is used. In most cases the feminine noun is formed by adding a special characters to the end of the masculine noun. Its not just nouns referring to people that have gender. Inanimate objects (doors, houses, cars, etc.) is either masculine or feminine. Whether an inanimate noun is masculine or feminine is mostly arbitrary.

Example:

1.    include('./Arabic.php');
2.    $obj = new Arabic('ArGender');
3.  
4.    echo "$name ";
5.  
6.    if ($obj->isFemale($name) == true) {
7.       echo '(Female)';
8.    }else{
9.       echo '(Male)';
10.    }

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