Calling a singular version of a class

[jerry_louise]

Greetings i am currently trying to work out if it is possible to create a way to call the singular version of a class by its plural name.

I already have a class that can convert singular words to plural and vice versa, however i have little idea yet how one would go about calling the a class based on whether it is a singular or plural call of said class.

One way i was thinking of doing it would be to dynamically create a pseudo class on call if the singular version of the class exists, which i believe is how ruby does it using metaprogaming, I'm not quite sure of that one yet.

[laserlight]

What do you mean by "singular version of a class"?

[jerry_louise]

Right so say i have a class called Book

I want to be able to call it via Book or Books. So Books::all() must match to Book::all().

[laserlight]

Why do you want to do this?

[jerry_louise]

I wish to mimic the way rails handles models mostly for my own interest if it is possible.

In rails you would call Book.find(1) for a single record of a table and Books.all() for all records in a database. It would be nice if this can be mimicked in PHP.