Re: Capitalising Personal Names

What about DeSilva And McSomething? Justin on 28/02/03 10:11 PM, Danny Shepherd (danny@kyboshed.com) wrote: > 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 >> >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > >