RE: [PHP] ucwords Except 'The' 'And' etc?

Something like this, perhaps (untested): function smart_ucwords($String) { $ExceptionList = array('the', 'an', 'a'); # should all be in lowercase $String = ucwords(strtolower(ltrim($String))); # LINE A foreach ($ExceptionList as $Word) { $String = eregi_replace("[[:space:]]+$Word[[:space:]]+", $Word, $String); } return $String; # LINE B } This will leave the exception word capitalized if it is the first word in the $String (as it should be), or if it is the last work in the $String (unlikely). If you want to handle cases where the exception word comes at the end of the string, just replace LINE A above with $String = ucwords(strtolower($String)).' '; and LINE B with return rtrim($String); Of course, there will be exceptions that are near-impossible to programmatically determine, eg; 'Dr. Martin van Hooten Hears a Who' in this case, van should be lower case, since it isn't referring to a medium-capacity box-like automobile, tennis shoe brand, or naval vanguard. -steve At 11:07 AM -0500 8/13/01, Boget, Chris <Chris.Boget@wild.net> wrote:

Is there a prewritten function for capitalizing the first

letter of each word in a string except for the common words you wouldn't want to capitalize in a title? Like Come Learn the Facts From an Industry Leader

None that I've seen. But it wouldn't be hard to write a function that takes a string, passes that string to ucwords() and then you can run through a pre-defined array and just do an ereg_replace() on those words you want to remain lowercase... Or something like that... Chris

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