Capitolize function

Anon

Hi all,

thanks very much for your previous assistance!

I'm interested in created a function which will perform the following:

Input: sam
Output: Sam

Input: cognitive psychology
Output: Cognitive Psychology

I'm guessing this is going to be an ugly looking eregi_replace function...

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

John.

Anon

My first guess is even uglier than that, as
ereg_replace doesn't allow you to match more than
9 substrings, and anyway all it can do on the
replacement side is insert the literal matches.

You'll probably have to break the string up into "words",
and then uppercase the first char of each. Not
rocket science, just tedious...

Anon

Actually it would be quite easy:
<?
function makeupper($string) {
$str = explode(" ", $string);
for ($i=0;$i<count($str);$i++) {
$newstr .= ucfirst($str[$i])." ";
}
return $newstr;
}

//Sample Usage
print makeupper("this a very ugly as house");
?>

Anon

Okay...let's play a little scenario here...

I want to make something happen in my PHP code...it's concerning something with strings, capitalizing the first letter of each word. I'm thinking.. "I should go to the manual, and look under string functions" So I go to php.net, find the manual, etc...

Scanning through the string functions, I see a function:

ucwords -- Uppercase the first character of each word in a string

Hmm..looks like that could be what I'm looking for...so I click on that link for the full description...

string ucwords (string str)

                    Capitalizes the first character of each word in str if that character is alphabetic.[/b]

BAMMM!! There it is...I've solved the problem on my own by reading a manual....I don't have to go around posting questions that make it obvious I've never been to PHP.net....

---JH

PS: The answer is ucwords($string);

Anon

Well Actually John Holmes while you are being a prick, ucfirst() would only capitalize the first word of the string and this guy was looking to capitalize every word in the string. So nice try at being a total %$@, but you couldn't even figure out what he was after. Try reading the questions instead of being a smart%$@!

Anon

Okay I jumped the gun on that one, and forgot about ucwords instead of ucfirst but you are still a prick! Try being nice once in a while it won't kill you!

Anon

I was hardly a prick. There's not a single cuss word in there. I was simply saying, in a long drawn out way, to please look in the manual first...

Would you rather I just put

RTFM

ucwords($string)

I hate RTFM and I think it's rude. I only use it as a last resort.

Oh well...he got his answer anyways.

---JH

Anon

huh huh... John Holmes is a prick... huh huh

yeah yeah... kick him in the neds butt-head
heh hehe hehe... yeah... cool.. heh heh

huh huh huh

Anon

There is a very very simple way to do this....

string ucwords (string str)
ucwords -- Uppercase the first character of each word in a string

http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/function.ucwords.php

Anon

John Holmes is damn right! There are a lot of questions about the easiest things here, but on the other hand... nobody gets fed up with answering them... so people go on asking them (because its easier <- probably), thats the difference between a programming language programmer and a script language writer !!

cya

Anon

Here let me put in a language that John Holmes can understand:

Okay...let's play a little scenario here...

We have this great PHP resource called phpbuilder.com and lots of people come here for help.

One day someone comes and asks a simple question about how to capitalize the first word of every word in a string. So someone answers and acts like a complete sarcastic idiot and makes the guy feel about two inches tall. So now the guy says "Well I'll never ask another question there again."

So the same sarcastic guy keeps answering questions in this manner, and soon our great little resource has dwindled into a place where there are no people asking any questions.

Moral: If you think someone's question is stupid, don't answer it. There are lots of people who would be willing to answer it using a little more tact and respect!

Anon

i haven't seen much tact and respect in your posts concerning this thread ...

and John Holmes did answer the question AND shown a way how a guy new to this PHP Stuff could look for further answers...

But thats just my humple opinion, and probably you are the guru, you are always right and i don't have time for such senseless posts - Hail to massa Louie

Rob

Anon

Robert - My lack of tact was geared towards John Holmes not the guy who asked the question. You are right he did teach the guy where to look, but I don't feel it was in the nicest way. If you don't have time for stupid posts then don't respond.