Re: Capitalising Personal Names
| From: | Danny Shepherd | Date: | Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:11:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Capitalising Personal Names | ||
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Hi,
Well it's hardly rocket science - a flick through the manual and I came up
with :
$name=ucwords(strtolower($name));
HTH
Danny.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Caplan" <geoff@advantae.com>
To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 10:31 AM
Subject: [PHP] Capitalising Personal Names
> Hi folks,
>
> I need to clean up the capitalisation of user-entered personal names.
>
> Once you start thinking about it, you realise it is a non-trivial
> issue, but previous discussions on the list presented only very
> partial solutions.
>
> In Perl, there are Cpan modules such as namecase and nameparse which
> handle this quite well. Does anyone have anything similar in PHP?
>
> Thanks
> --
>
> Geoff Caplan
> Advantae Ltd
>
>
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