Upper Case

zzz

I need to be able to detect if a name already starts with a capital letter and if it's not all caps.

Example: DiCaprio

has two upper case letters -- and it's correct -- which is TRUE

if FALSE (all lower or all upper case) I'll just force an upper case like

ucwords(strtolower($name))

laserlight

Regex is an option, but you can also try:

ctype_upper($name{0}) && !ctype_upper(substr($name, 1))

Piranha

Sorry to be a pain in the ass, but names such as Dr. Henk A. van der Vorst and van der Vorst is probably right as well. Just be sure to think about names that can start with a lower letter as well.

zzz

Oh, I was asking about last name only, and van der Vorst would be TRUE in my case, since it's not all lower or upper case.

Actually while I was writing this I thought that all I need is something like:

if (ctype_upper($name) || ctype_lower($name)) {
echo 'not OK';
} else {
echo 'OK';
}

But it will only work with a single word like diCaprio and you brought upa good point about scandinanvian or other names that may consist of several parts.

So I guess I need to treat the name as a string, right? Not sure how...

Piranha

I haven't had this problem myself, just saw a possible problem and thought it was better to tell you. One solution to this problem is to have specific words that is allowed to have all lower-case letters and then go through the words one after each other. I have no idea if it is a good or bad idea though.

Btw, names like that name is normally not from Scandinavia. They are often from Holland.

zzz

Thanks Piranha. I am afraid there could be quite a list for those names. My reasoning behind this is: The user has a full control over how the name is displayed and if they don't really care and put it in all lower or upper case , then I'll give it my best shot to fix it for the sake of the other users. My solution, although not a 100% bullet proofed will address the issue 90% of the time, at least. And if the owner happen to see it and didn't like this, they are free to go and correct it thorugh their account. Then my script will detect the change and leave it according to their preference.

I didn't mean to offend scandinavians. This past summer I only made it as far North as Netherlands... 😉

Piranha

Hehe. No offence taken m8, hard to know. Since I posted it of course you drew the only logical solution 😉 And it really does not matter where those names come from :p

zzz

I'd still like to know how to put multi-word names in a string because now

ctype_upper($name) || ctype_lower($name)

will affect only the first word.