string replace

[rulian]

how do I made a string replace case insensitive? if I have a string replace for Dakota and somebody types DAKOTA, dakota, or any other combination, my function wont catch it.

[Anon]

you need to use
ucfirst()
example:
ucfirst($variable)

this will capitalize the first letter
if you have multi words in the sentence
use
ucwords()

[junkie_doodle]

eregi_replace
(PHP 3, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)

eregi_replace -- replace regular expression case insensitive
Description

string eregi_replace (string pattern, string replacement, string string)

This function is identical to ereg_replace() except that this ignores case distinction when matching alphabetic characters.

See also ereg(), eregi(), and ereg_replace().

taken from [http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.eregi-replace.php]

[[deleted]]

Depends on what method of string replacing you use. How do you replace the strings?

[rulian]

I was using str replace, but I switched to eregi_replace like junkie said, and it's working fine. thanks anyway

[rulian]

NEW PROBLEM

in sone instances, my replace misses it's target, for example if I want to replace every instance of dakota, with NORTH in
dakota dakota dakota dakota dakota, it would actually come out
dakota north north north north here's some code:

function filter($string){
$querylist=mysql_query("select * from filter where userid='$username'");
$list=mysql_result($querylist, 0, 'content');

$listarray=explode(",", $list);
while (list($ArrayIndex, $ArrayContent) = each ($listarray))
{
$string=eregi_replace("$ArrayContent", " *** ", $string);
}
echo $string;
}}

[rulian]

never mind, i think i got it