[Resolved] Apply proper capitalization to paragraph of text based on grammar/punctuation rules.

andrewm

From:
"i went trick or treating tonight with my mommy. it was a lot of fun. i can't wait to do it again next year."

To:
"I went trick or treating tonight with my mommy. It was a lot of fun. I can't wait to do it again next year."

Does a script/class exist that can do this? It doesn't have to be perfect by any means. Just decent.

Thanks!

Edit: This would be used for descriptions of items, so "I" won't be used and the proper nouns will usually only be the name of the item, which can be capitalized easily anyway.

webdes03

Probably not what you're looking for, but CSS will automatically Capitalize the first letter of a sentence.

text-transform: capitalize;

andrewm

Interesting, I'll try playing around with that.

I'd prefer something that isn't browser dependent, but if worse comes to worse, that might do it.

Thanks.

johnnyv

Something like this perhaps.

$string = "i went trick or treating tonight with my mommy. it was a lot of fun. i can't wait to do it again next year.";
$parts = explode(".",$string);
foreach($parts as $value)
{
   if($value{0} == " ")
   {
   $temp = substr($value,1);
   $temp = ucfirst($temp);
   $new_string = $new_string." ".$temp.".";
   }
   else
   {
   $temp = ucfirst($value);
   $new_string = $new_string.$temp.".";
   }
}

andrewm

Thanks Johnny. That should do'er.