Capitalization of web form input

[icrash2]

Hi,

I'm using PHP to submit form input to MySQL and need a way to
capitalize the first character for certain fields. Does anyone know of
some way to achieve this?

Much appreciated

[Randell D.]

Re: Capitalization of web form input


"icrash2" <nospam5@mxmoto .com> wrote in message
news:82d46cd0.0 312281936.595b8 ac9@posting.goo gle.com...
Hi,

I'm using PHP to submit form input to MySQL and need a way to
capitalize the first character for certain fields. Does anyone know of
some way to achieve this?

Much appreciated

ucwords() should do it...

http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.ucwords.php

[Manuel Lemos]

Re: Capitalization of web form input

Hello,

On 12/29/2003 01:36 AM, icrash2 wrote:[color=blue]
> I'm using PHP to submit form input to MySQL and need a way to
> capitalize the first character for certain fields. Does anyone know of
> some way to achieve this?[/color]

There is a function in PHP for doing that, but you may also want to take
a look at this class that among many other features of interess in form
generation and validation, it lets you specify capitalization rules: all
lowercase, all uppercase and just word initials (as you want).

The point of using this class for that purpose is that, besides doing it
on the server side, it will also capitalize the field values on the
client side (Javascript) right when the user changes them, so the user
can see that the form is capitalizing the words that are entered before
processing them.

http://www.phpclasses.org/formsgeneration

--

Regards,
Manuel Lemos

Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP

http://www.phpclasses.org/

[CountScubula]

Re: Capitalization of web form input

nospam5@mxmoto. com (icrash2) wrote in message news:<82d46cd0. 0312281936.595b 8ac9@posting.go ogle.com>...[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I'm using PHP to submit form input to MySQL and need a way to
> capitalize the first character for certain fields. Does anyone know of
> some way to achieve this?
>
> Much appreciated[/color]


ucfirst() uppercases first letter in a string
ucwords() uppercases firtw letter of every word in string


Mike Bradley
http://gzen.myhq.info -- free online php tools

[Geoff Berrow]

Re: Capitalization of web form input

I noticed that Message-ID:
<ed2d44d4.03122 82245.144c638f@ posting.google. com> from CountScubula
contained the following:
[color=blue][color=green]
>> I'm using PHP to submit form input to MySQL and need a way to
>> capitalize the first character for certain fields. Does anyone know of
>> some way to achieve this?
>>
>> Much appreciated[/color]
>
>
>ucfirst() uppercases first letter in a string
>ucwords() uppercases firtw letter of every word in string[/color]

But as someone pointed out in a recent thread, for names this may not be
what you want e.g. van Damme, de Werke..
--
Geoff Berrow (put thecat out to email)
It's only Usenet, no one dies.
My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
Simple RFDs http://www.ckdog.co.uk/rfdmaker/

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Re: Capitalization of web form input

Geoff Berrow <blthecat@ckdog .co.uk> wrote in message
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> I noticed that Message-ID:
> <ed2d44d4.03122 82245.144c638f@ posting.google. com> from CountScubula
> contained the following:
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >> I'm using PHP to submit form input to MySQL and need a way to
> >> capitalize the first character for certain fields. Does anyone know of
> >> some way to achieve this?
> >>
> >> Much appreciated[/color]
> >
> >
> >ucfirst() uppercases first letter in a string
> >ucwords() uppercases firtw letter of every word in string[/color]
>
> But as someone pointed out in a recent thread, for names this may not be
> what you want e.g. van Damme, de Werke..
> --
> Geoff Berrow (put thecat out to email)
> It's only Usenet, no one dies.
> My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
> Simple RFDs http://www.ckdog.co.uk/rfdmaker/[/color]

Use explode() to turn the string into an array, then capitalize each word
that doesn't match "van" "de" etc using a loop.