note 84920 modified in function.ucwords by yannick

I modified Q1712's code (below) to use regular expressions instead of characters to properly capitalize words that fall directly after an unwanted character. See his post for details. This version allows me to use it around html elements, etc. <?php function my_ucwords($string){ $invalid_characters = array('"', '\(', '\[', '\/', '<.*?>', '<\/.*?>'); foreach($invalid_characters as $regex){ $string = preg_replace('/('.$regex.')/','$1 ',$string); } $string=ucwords($string); foreach($invalid_characters as $regex){ $string = preg_replace('/('.$regex.') /','$1',$string); } return $string; } ?> Moreover, to get a proper title case, i combine it with this function: This Function is obtained from: http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/716 <?php function title_case($title) { $smallwordsarray = array( 'of','a','the','and','an','or','nor','but','is','if','then', 'else','when', 'at','from','by','on','off','for','in','out', 'over','to','into','with' ); $words = explode(' ', $title); foreach ($words as $key => $word) { if ($key == 0 or !in_array($word, $smallwordsarray)) $words[$key] = $this->my_ucwords(strtolower($word)); } $newtitle = implode(' ', $words); return $newtitle; } ?> Hope you find it useful. --was-- I modified Q1712's code (below) to use regular expressions instead of characters to properly capitalize words that fall directly after an unwanted character. See his post for details. This version allows me to use it around html elements, etc. function my_ucwords($string){ $invalid_characters = array('"', '\(', '\[', '\/', '<.*?>', '<\/.*?>'); foreach($invalid_characters as $regex){ $string = preg_replace('/('.$regex.')/','$1 ',$string); } $string=ucwords($string); foreach($invalid_characters as $regex){ $string = preg_replace('/('.$regex.') /','$1',$string); } return $string; } Moreover, to get a proper title case, i combine it with this function: //This Function is obtained from: http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/716 function title_case($title) { $smallwordsarray = array( 'of','a','the','and','an','or','nor','but','is','if','then', 'else','when', 'at','from','by','on','off','for','in','out', 'over','to','into','with' ); $words = explode(' ', $title); foreach ($words as $key => $word) { if ($key == 0 or !in_array($word, $smallwordsarray)) $words[$key] = $this->my_ucwords(strtolower($word)); } $newtitle = implode(' ', $words); return $newtitle; } Hope you find it useful. http://php.net/manual/en/function.ucwords.php