Re: [PHP] Capitalizing the first letter

2007-03-15 Thread Tijnema !
On 3/15/07, Ford, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 14 March 2007 08:25, Richard Lynch wrote: > On Tue, March 13, 2007 9:10 am, Todd Cary wrote: > > I would like to write a filter that takes the text "smith" or > > "SMith" and returns "Smith"; same for "ralph smith". > > No, you don't. :-) > >

RE: [PHP] Capitalizing the first letter

2007-03-15 Thread Ford, Mike
On 14 March 2007 08:25, Richard Lynch wrote: > On Tue, March 13, 2007 9:10 am, Todd Cary wrote: > > I would like to write a filter that takes the text "smith" or > > "SMith" and returns "Smith"; same for "ralph smith". > > No, you don't. :-) > > You *think* you want to write that function, but t

Re: [PHP] Capitalizing the first letter

2007-03-14 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, March 13, 2007 9:10 am, Todd Cary wrote: > I would like to write a filter that takes the text "smith" or > "SMith" and returns "Smith"; same for "ralph smith". No, you don't. :-) You *think* you want to write that function, but this is one of those things that is *way* more complicated th

RE: [PHP] Capitalizing the first letter

2007-03-13 Thread Peter Lauri
> > Thank you! I did not know about the ucwords() functions, and it > does not need the string set to lower case. > > Now to create a filter that returns only numbers (e.g. "a1234z" > -> "1234") and the same for non-numbers. > [Peter Lauri - DWS Asia] This to replace all non-digit characters

Re: [PHP] Capitalizing the first letter

2007-03-13 Thread Todd Cary
Steve wrote: For your filter to return only/no digits, I would recommend doing a bit of reading on preg_replace ( http://us2.php.net/preg_replace ) while noting the following flags: \d Matches any decimal digit; this is equivalent to the class [0-9]. \D Matches any non-digit character; this i

Re: [PHP] Capitalizing the first letter

2007-03-13 Thread Steve
For your filter to return only/no digits, I would recommend doing a bit of reading on preg_replace ( http://us2.php.net/preg_replace ) while noting the following flags: \d Matches any decimal digit; this is equivalent to the class [0-9]. \D Matches any non-digit character; this is equivalent to

RE: [PHP] Capitalizing the first letter

2007-03-13 Thread Edward Kay
> I would like to write a filter that takes the text "smith" or > "SMith" and returns "Smith"; same for "ralph smith". Is the a > good source on using filters this way? > $bar = ucwords(strtolower($bar)); This is an example on the manual page for ucwords. How hard did you look? Edward --

Re: [PHP] Capitalizing the first letter

2007-03-13 Thread Todd Cary
Chris Boget wrote: I would like to write a filter that takes the text "smith" or "SMith" and returns "Smith"; same for "ralph smith". Is the a good source on using filters this way? It may not be the most efficient way of accomplishing this, but you could do something like: $string = 'SMit

Re: [PHP] Capitalizing the first letter

2007-03-13 Thread Jochem Maas
Todd Cary wrote: > I would like to write a filter that takes the text "smith" or "SMith" > and returns "Smith"; same for "ralph smith". Is the a good source on > using filters this way? // filter? echo ucfirst(strtolower("SMith")); // or echo ucwords(strtolower("ralph a. SMith")); // with reg

RE: [PHP] Capitalizing the first letter

2007-03-13 Thread Chris Boget
> I would like to write a filter that > takes the text "smith" or "SMith" and > returns "Smith"; same for "ralph smith". > Is the a good source on using filters > this way? It may not be the most efficient way of accomplishing this, but you could do something like: $string = 'SMith' $fixedSt

Re: [PHP] Capitalizing the first letter

2007-03-13 Thread Stut
Todd Cary wrote: I would like to write a filter that takes the text "smith" or "SMith" and returns "Smith"; same for "ralph smith". Is the a good source on using filters this way? Thank you... You're welcome. -Stut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit

Re: [PHP] Capitalizing the first letter

2007-03-13 Thread Dave Goodchild
ucwords(strtolower($string)) or ucfirst(strtolower($string)) On 3/13/07, Todd Cary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would like to write a filter that takes the text "smith" or "SMith" and returns "Smith"; same for "ralph smith". Is the a good source on using filters this way? Thank you... -- P