RE: [PHP] ucwords Except 'The' 'And' etc?
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, seems to work. Beware of email-induced
line-wrapping, particularly in the comment black quoted strings:
?php
function smart_ucwords($String, $ForceCase=1, $CapitalizeTrailing=1) {
#
# A more sophisticated approach to title-casing.
#
## PARAMETERS
##
#
# $String string Input string.
# $ForceCase 0|1 If true, will force title case (only
first letter
#capitalized, no matter what case the
string is in.
# $CaptializeTrailing 0|1 If true, will capitalize a normally-excepted
#word if it is the last word in the
string. So, a
#string like 'Shot In the Dark, A'
works properly.
#
## USAGE NOTES
#
#
# The Exception List words should be in the case you desire;
normally this will
# be lowercase.
#
# The Invariant List contains words and titles (eg; NASA, MySQL, PostGreSQL,
# eBusiness) whose capitalization should be fixed, no matter what.
#
# If one of these arrays is not to be used, simply set it to array().
#
## MODIFICATION HISTORY
#
# 14 august 2001: S. Edberg, UCDavis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Original
#
$EXCEPTION_LIST = array(
'a', 'an', 'and', 'at', 'but', 'for', 'nor', 'or', 'some',
'the', 'to', 'with'
);
$INVARIANT_LIST = array(
'NASA', 'MySQL', 'PostGreSQL', 'eBusiness'
);
# First, strip save leading trailing whitespace
preg_match(
'/^(\s*?)(.*)(\s*)$/U',
($ForceCase ? strtolower($String) : $String),
$StringParts
);
# Replace exception words
$String = ucwords($StringParts[2].($CapitalizeTrailing ? '' : ' '));
foreach ($EXCEPTION_LIST as $Word) {
$String = preg_replace(/(\s+)$Word(\s+)/i, \\1$Word\\2, $String);
}
# Replace invariants
$String = $String ;
foreach ($INVARIANT_LIST as $Word) {
$String = preg_replace(/(\s+)$Word(\s+)/i, \\1$Word\\2, $String);
}
# Replace whitespace and return
return $StringParts[1].trim($String).$StringParts[3];
}
?
At 4:09 PM -0500 8/13/01, Jeff Oien wrote:
Fabulous. Thanks to Steve and Mark. Exactly what I needed.
Jeff Oien
Something like this, perhaps (untested):
I needed this too so I just tested it.
function smart_ucwords($String)
{
$ExceptionList = array('the', 'an', 'a'); # should all be in
lowercase
$String = ucwords(strtolower(ltrim($String))); # LINE A
foreach ($ExceptionList as $Word)
{
$String = eregi_replace([[:space:]]+$Word[[:space:]]+,
$Word, $String);
}
this line should be more like:
$String = eregi_replace(([[:space:]]+).$Word.([[:space:]]+),
\\1.$Word.\\2, $String);
return $String; # LINE B
}
thanks!
- Mark
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[PHP] ucwords Except 'The' 'And' etc?
Is there a prewritten function for capitalizing the first letter of each word in a string except for the common words you wouldn't want to capitalize in a title? Like Come Learn the Facts From an Industry Leader Thanks. Jeff Oien -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP] ucwords Except 'The' 'And' etc?
Is there a prewritten function for capitalizing the first letter of each word in a string except for the common words you wouldn't want to capitalize in a title? Like Come Learn the Facts From an Industry Leader None that I've seen. But it wouldn't be hard to write a function that takes a string, passes that string to ucwords() and then you can run through a pre-defined array and just do an ereg_replace() on those words you want to remain lowercase... Or something like that... Chris
Re: [PHP] ucwords Except 'The' 'And' etc?
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ucwords.php You can read all about the limit of this function, but this is the closest thing to what you're looking for. Rick Is there a prewritten function for capitalizing the first letter of each word in a string except for the common words you wouldn't want to capitalize in a title? Like Come Learn the Facts From an Industry Leader Thanks. Jeff Oien -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP] ucwords Except 'The' 'And' etc?
Something like this, perhaps (untested):
function smart_ucwords($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($String);
Of course, there will be exceptions that are near-impossible to
programmatically determine, eg;
'Dr. Martin van Hooten Hears a Who'
in this case, van should be lower case, since it isn't referring to a
medium-capacity box-like automobile, tennis shoe brand, or naval
vanguard.
-steve
At 11:07 AM -0500 8/13/01, Boget, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a prewritten function for capitalizing the first
letter of each word in a string except for the common
words you wouldn't want to capitalize in a title? Like
Come Learn the Facts From an Industry Leader
None that I've seen.
But it wouldn't be hard to write a function that takes a
string, passes that string to ucwords() and then you can
run through a pre-defined array and just do an ereg_replace()
on those words you want to remain lowercase...
Or something like that...
Chris
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RE: [PHP] ucwords Except 'The' 'And' etc?
Something like this, perhaps (untested):
I needed this too so I just tested it.
function smart_ucwords($String)
{
$ExceptionList = array('the', 'an', 'a'); # should all be in
lowercase
$String = ucwords(strtolower(ltrim($String))); # LINE A
foreach ($ExceptionList as $Word)
{
$String = eregi_replace([[:space:]]+$Word[[:space:]]+,
$Word, $String);
}
this line should be more like:
$String = eregi_replace(([[:space:]]+).$Word.([[:space:]]+),
\\1.$Word.\\2, $String);
return $String; # LINE B
}
thanks!
- Mark
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RE: [PHP] ucwords Except 'The' 'And' etc?
Fabulous. Thanks to Steve and Mark. Exactly what I needed.
Jeff Oien
Something like this, perhaps (untested):
I needed this too so I just tested it.
function smart_ucwords($String)
{
$ExceptionList = array('the', 'an', 'a'); # should all be in
lowercase
$String = ucwords(strtolower(ltrim($String))); # LINE A
foreach ($ExceptionList as $Word)
{
$String = eregi_replace([[:space:]]+$Word[[:space:]]+,
$Word, $String);
}
this line should be more like:
$String = eregi_replace(([[:space:]]+).$Word.([[:space:]]+),
\\1.$Word.\\2, $String);
return $String; # LINE B
}
thanks!
- Mark
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