Make HELLO Hello

[Shawazi]

So in CSS everyone knows you can make

HI EVERYONE = > hi everyone

with text-transform

Is there a way in PHP to make it
Hi Everyone
?

[Mark_78]

Yes, you can 🙂, you can use strtolower.

Taken from the PHP manual on php.net

<?php
$str = "Mary Had A Little Lamb and She LOVED It So";
$str = strtolower($str);
print $str; # Prints mary had a little lamb and she loved it so
?>

[Sxooter]

If you want something like:

"The QuiCK BRown Fox juMPs" -> "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps" you can use this:

<?php
$string = ""The QuiCK BRown Fox juMPs"";
$tmp = explode(" +",$string);
$new = "";
foreach($tmp as $t){
  $new[] = ucfirst(strtolower($t));
}
$string2 = implode(" ",$new);
print $string2;

I don't have a machine to test this on, but you get the gist.

[bunner_bob]

Or you could do:

$string = 'THE QuiCK bROwn foX';
echo ucwords(strtolower($string));

This converts the whole thing to lowercase and then uppercases the first letter of each word.

Only place ucwords() seems to fall down is when a letter is preceded by a literal quote. So if you ran the above on:
enter your "real name" into the database
you'd get:
Enter Your "real Name" Into The Database

[Sxooter]

Geez. can you guess who's been using PHP since long before ucwords was implemented ? 😉

[Shawazi]

Not I ;-)