I know, I know, I have a lot of work to do...I shouldn't be doing
this. I did get to play with PCRE regexps here, though...lotsa cool
features over eregs!. Anyway, here's a *** NEW!!! IMPROVED!!! ***
version of smart_ucwords(), that's probably way too much overkill. I
did some quick tests,
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
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ucwords.php
You can read all about the limit of this function, but this is the closest
thing to what you're looking for.
Rick
Is there a prewritten function for capitalizing the first letter of each
word in a string except for the common words you
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)
{
$String =
Something like this, perhaps (untested):
I needed this too so I just tested it.
function smart_ucwords($String)
{
$ExceptionList = array('the', 'an', 'a'); # should all be in
lowercase
$String = ucwords(strtolower(ltrim($String))); # LINE A
foreach ($ExceptionList as
Fabulous. Thanks to Steve and Mark. Exactly what I needed.
Jeff Oien
Something like this, perhaps (untested):
I needed this too so I just tested it.
function smart_ucwords($String)
{
$ExceptionList = array('the', 'an', 'a'); # should all be in
lowercase
$String =
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