Case Conversion of US Person Names
| From: | phphelp -- kbk | Date: | Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:00:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | Case Conversion of US Person Names | ||
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Hi, All -- -- - -
I occasionally find myself in need of a utility to do case conversion of people's names, especially when I am converting data from an old to a new system. This is the first such occasion in PHP.
I know about ucwords() and mb_convert_case(). They do not accommodate names with "middle" capitalization.
Does anybody have such a utility to share, or know of one posted by someone "out there" that you have used?
I am not looking for perfection -- I know that such is not possible. I just want to pick off the easy ones -- Mc, Mac, O', de, de la, van, vander, van der, d' and others like that. I see some novel attempts to do parts of this on the PHP ucwords() "User Notes" area, but I bet someone out there has something more comprehensive. I'd rather not "roll my own" as I have done in other languages.
I have Googled without success.
Many thanks,
Ken