[RESOLVED] PHP Proper Case

[I_Love_My_Vans]

I know that PHP has not function to set a string to proper case, look at the example below.

Original string - "an article from a book"
PHP ucwords() - "An Article From A Book"
Expected Result -"An Article from a Book"

Now, the following words that are not at the start of a string should not be capatilised...

if, as, and, then, the, than etc

So... is their a function that will properly capatilise a string, if not, where can I get a list of words, such as those in the example above.

Thanks!

[manavo11]

This?

http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/...e-case-in-php/

[I_Love_My_Vans]

Fantastic! Cheers Manavo!!

[penagate]

Unfortunately function in that link contains many errors — read the comments to see a few. Also it is grossly inefficient.

There really isn't an easy way to do this. I would start by consulting a manual of style which is appropriate to your locale and context, and only then implementing the rules in code.

[I_Love_My_Vans]

Thanks pena,

I appreciate that the code may be inefficient, in fact the strings of which I am applying this to are only 4/5 words long, only occur once per script, and is going to be on a script of which isn't going to be used that often.

As a solution without investing too much time, it is in fact perfect.