Upper & lower case... regular spelling...

[Hendricus]

What I'm looking for is a function that retypes input text to prevent people from SHOUTING... 🙂

For example:

HELLO people THIS is da BOMB. Or ISN'T IT????

Should turn into:

Hello people this is da bomb. Or isn't it????

strtolower() doesn't work cause that would turn all upper case into lower case and ucwords() will turn every first letter of a word into a upper case. I just want the first letter of a sentence (after a period . ) to turn into a upper case...

I don't know where to start... 🙁 Help is appreciated

Cheers,
Hendricus

[Mordecai]

You could use regular expressions: http://www.php.net/ereg_replace , http://www.php.net/preg_replace

Also, what about a sentence like this:
I like PHP.
That would change to "I like php." Is this just something you're going to have to live with? You might want to try something like levenshtein distances: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.levenshtein.php
to find out how much off the lowercase version is from the actual version, to see if they're "yelling."

[Hiccup]

What you have to do is this:

1.) Read your sentences into a string. (hint use explode based on a ".", "?" or "!")

2.) "Explode the first word off and treat it as a single variable, (hint you can then make it's first letter capitalized)

3.) Take the remaining part of the sentence and use lower command.

4.) Piece the string back together.

5.) Repeat for each sentence.

I'm not going to give you the code as it's all in the manual, plus you learn better by doing it rather then copying it. Just think it through and refer to the manual for each action you need accomplished. Not a difficult task. 🙂

[Hendricus]

Well I'm going to work 🙂 Thanx for the info!

Cheers,
Hendricus

PS. I wasn't looking for copy & paste code, would have looked in the code library if I was 😃
Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature 😉

[Hendricus]

<?php
$text = "HEY FOLKS. MY NAME IS HENDRICUS. THIS IS TO PREVENT SHOUTING.";

$text = strtolower(strip_tags($text));
$text = explode(".",$text);
$nr = 0;
while($nr < count($text))
{	
	$words = explode(" ",trim($text[$nr]));
	print(ucwords($words[0]));
	print(" ");
	$i = 1;
	while($i < count($words))
	{
		print($words[$i]);
		$i++;
		if($i != count($words)) { print(" "); } else { print(". "); }
	}
$nr++;
}
?>

results in: Hey folks. My name is hendricus. This is to prevent shouting.

Here's my code. It's works, but only if a sentence ends in a period. How should I go to works with ! and ? etc.

Any clues....?

Cheers,
Hendricus

[Hendricus]

<?php
$text = "HEY FOLKS! MY NAME IS HENDRICUS... THIS IS TO PREVENT SHOUTING.";

$text = strtolower(strip_tags(trim($text)));
$text = " $text";
$text = explode(" ",$text);
	while($i < count($text))
	{
		if ($i == 1)	
		{ 
			print(ucwords($text[$i])); 
		} else {
			if (ereg ("[.!?]$", $text[$i-1])) 
			{
				print(ucwords($text[$i]));
			} else {
				print($text[$i]);
			}
		}
		if($i != count($text))
		{ 
		print(" ");
		}
		$i++;
	}
?>

results in: Hey folks! My name is hendricus... This is to prevent shouting.

Finally got it.... thanks all

Cheers,
Hendricus