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-rw-r--r--engine/classes/ElggPluginManifest.php19
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/engine/classes/ElggPluginManifest.php b/engine/classes/ElggPluginManifest.php
index 7592eb667..7aa702d47 100644
--- a/engine/classes/ElggPluginManifest.php
+++ b/engine/classes/ElggPluginManifest.php
@@ -592,4 +592,23 @@ class ElggPluginManifest {
return $return;
}
+
+ /**
+ * Returns a category's friendly name. This can be localized by
+ * defining the string 'admin:plugins:category:<category>'. If no
+ * localization is found, returns the category with _ and - converted to ' '
+ * and then ucwords()'d.
+ *
+ * @param str $category The category as defined in the manifest.
+ * @return str A human-readable category
+ */
+ static public function getFriendlyCategory($category) {
+ $cat_raw_string = "admin:plugins:category:$category";
+ $cat_display_string = elgg_echo($cat_raw_string);
+ if ($cat_display_string == $cat_raw_string) {
+ $category = str_replace(array('-', '_'), ' ', $category);
+ $cat_display_string = ucwords($category);
+ }
+ return $cat_display_string;
+ }
}