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    ucwords

    (PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

    ucwords — Uppercase the first character of each word in a string

    Description

    string ucwords ( string $str [, string $delimiters = " \t\r\n\f\v" ] )

    Returns a string with the first character of each word in str capitalized, if that character is alphabetic.

    The definition of a word is any string of characters that is immediately after any character listed in the delimiters parameter (By default these are: space, form-feed, newline, carriage return, horizontal tab, and vertical tab).

    Parameters

    str

    The input string.

    delimiters

    The optional delimiters contains the word separator characters.

    Return Values

    Returns the modified string.

    Changelog

    Version Description
    5.4.32, 5.5.16 Added the delimiters parameter.

    Examples

    Example #1 ucwords() example

    <?php
    $foo     = 'hello world!';
    $foo = ucwords($foo);             // Hello World!

    $bar = 'HELLO WORLD!';
    $bar = ucwords($bar);             // HELLO WORLD!
    $bar = ucwords(strtolower($bar)); // Hello World!
    ?>

    Example #2 ucwords() example with custom delimiter

    <?php
    $foo     = 'hello|world!';
    $bar = ucwords($foo);             // Hello|world!

    $baz = ucwords($foo, "|");        // Hello|World!
    ?>

    Notes

    Note: This function is binary-safe.

    See Also

    User Contributed Notes

    jmarois at ca dot ibm dot com
    6 years ago
    My quick and dirty ucname (Upper Case Name) function.

    <?php
    //FUNCTION

    function ucname($string) {
            $string =ucwords(strtolower($string));

        foreach (array(    '-', '\'') as $delimiter) {
          if (    strpos($string, $delimiter)!==false) {
                $string =implode($delimiter, array_map('ucfirst', explode($delimiter, $string)));
          }
        }
        return     $string;
    }
    ?>
    <?php
    //TEST

    $names =array(
          'JEAN-LUC PICARD',
          'MILES O\'BRIEN',
          'WILLIAM RIKER',
          'geordi la forge',
          'bEvErly CRuSHeR'
    );
    foreach (    $names as $name) { print ucname("{$name}\n"); }

    //PRINTS:
    /*
    Jean-Luc Picard
    Miles O'Brien
    William Riker
    Geordi La Forge
    Beverly Crusher
    */
    ?>

    You can add more delimiters in the for-each loop array if you want to handle more characters.
    igua no-spam at coveruniverse dot com
    11 years ago
    The code posted by neil doesn't fully do what is wanted. Try adding some more question marks at the end and it will return a not wanted string.

    Below code will uppercase all your words regardless of the delimiter.

    <?php
    $text     = "What?No 'delimiters',shit \"happens\" here.this solves all problems???";
    preg_match_all('/[A-Za-z]+|[^A-Za-z]+/', $text, $data);
    for (    $i = 0; $i < count($data[0]); $i++) {
          $data[0][$i] = ucfirst($data[0][$i]);
    }
    $text = implode("", $data[0]);
    print     $text;
    ?>
    antoniomax at antoniomax dot com
    2 years ago
    Para formatar nomes em pt-br:

    <?php

            function titleCase($string, $delimiters = array(" ", "-", ".", "'", "O'", "Mc"), $exceptions = array("de", "da", "dos", "das", "do", "I", "II", "III", "IV", "V", "VI"))
        {
                /*
             * Exceptions in lower case are words you don't want converted
             * Exceptions all in upper case are any words you don't want converted to title case
             *   but should be converted to upper case, e.g.:
             *   king henry viii or king henry Viii should be King Henry VIII
             */
                $string = mb_convert_case($string, MB_CASE_TITLE, "UTF-8");
            foreach (    $delimiters as $dlnr => $delimiter) {
                    $words = explode($delimiter, $string);
                    $newwords = array();
                foreach (    $words as $wordnr => $word) {
                    if (    in_array(mb_strtoupper($word, "UTF-8"), $exceptions)) {
                            // check exceptions list for any words that should be in upper case
                            $word = mb_strtoupper($word, "UTF-8");
                    } elseif (    in_array(mb_strtolower($word, "UTF-8"), $exceptions)) {
                            // check exceptions list for any words that should be in upper case
                            $word = mb_strtolower($word, "UTF-8");
                    } elseif (!    in_array($word, $exceptions)) {
                            // convert to uppercase (non-utf8 only)
                            $word = ucfirst($word);
                    }
                        array_push($newwords, $word);
                }
                    $string = join($delimiter, $newwords);
           }    //foreach
               return $string;
        }

    ?>

    Usage:

    <?php
        $s     = 'SÃO JOÃO DOS SANTOS';
            $v = titleCase($s); // 'São João dos Santos'
    ?>
    robert at broofa dot com
    6 years ago
    Some recipes for switching between underscore and camelcase naming:

    <?php
    // underscored to upper-camelcase
    // e.g. "this_method_name" -> "ThisMethodName"
    preg_replace('/(?:^|_)(.?)/e',"strtoupper('$1')",$string);

    // underscored to lower-camelcase
    // e.g. "this_method_name" -> "thisMethodName"
    preg_replace('/_(.?)/e',"strtoupper('$1')",$string);

    // camelcase (lower or upper) to underscored
    // e.g. "thisMethodName" -> "this_method_name"
    // e.g. "ThisMethodName" -> "this_method_name"
    strtolower(preg_replace('/([^A-Z])([A-Z])/', "$1_$2", $string));
    ?>

    Of course these aren't 100% symmetric.  For example...
      * this_is_a_string -> ThisIsAString -> this_is_astring
      * GetURLForString -> get_urlfor_string -> GetUrlforString
    Luca Borrione luca -a email -d c_o_m
    3 years ago
    Features:
    - multi byte compatible
    - handles multiple delimiters

    <?php
    function ucwords_specific ($string, $delimiters = '', $encoding = NULL)
    {
        if (    $encoding === NULL) { $encoding = mb_internal_encoding();}

        if (    is_string($delimiters))
        {
                $delimiters =  str_split( str_replace(' ', '', $delimiters));
        }

            $delimiters_pattern1 = array();
            $delimiters_replace1 = array();
            $delimiters_pattern2 = array();
            $delimiters_replace2 = array();
        foreach (    $delimiters as $delimiter)
        {
                $uniqid = uniqid();
                $delimiters_pattern1[]   = '/'. preg_quote($delimiter) .'/';
                $delimiters_replace1[]   = $delimiter.$uniqid.' ';
                $delimiters_pattern2[]   = '/'. preg_quote($delimiter.$uniqid.' ') .'/';
                $delimiters_replace2[]   = $delimiter;
        }

            // $return_string = mb_strtolower($string, $encoding);
            $return_string = $string;
            $return_string = preg_replace($delimiters_pattern1, $delimiters_replace1, $return_string);

            $words = explode(' ', $return_string);

        foreach (    $words as $index => $word)
        {
                $words[$index] = mb_strtoupper(mb_substr($word, 0, 1, $encoding), $encoding).mb_substr($word, 1, mb_strlen($word, $encoding), $encoding);
        }

            $return_string = implode(' ', $words);

            $return_string = preg_replace($delimiters_pattern2, $delimiters_replace2, $return_string);

        return     $return_string;
    }
    ?>

    Params:
    1. string: The string being converted
    2. delimiters: a string with all wanted delimiters written one after the other e.g. "-'"
    3. encoding: Is the character encoding. If it is omitted, the internal character encoding value will be used.

    Example Usage:
    <?php
    mb_internal_encoding    ('UTF-8');
    $string = "JEAN-PAUL d'artagnan şŠ-òÀ-éÌ hello - world";
    echo     ucwords_specific( mb_strtolower($string, 'UTF-8'), "-'");
    ?>

    Output:
    Jean-Paul D'Artagnan Şš-Òà-Éì Hello - World
    hrvoj3e at gmail dot com
    3 years ago
    UTF-8 Title Case that works for me even with hyphens involved!

    $str = 'ĐaaČaa-AAAaaa, BBbb';

    $str = mb_convert_case($str, MB_CASE_TITLE, "UTF-8");

    echo($str): 'Đaačaa-Aaaaaa, Bbbb'
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
    "ieure at php dot net", your idea is pure poetry!

    The function below will standardize the capitalization on people's names and the titles of reports and essays . You may need to adapt the lists in "$all_uppercase" and "$all_lowercase" to suit the data that you are working with.

    function my_ucwords($str, $is_name=false) {
       // exceptions to standard case conversion
       if ($is_name) {
           $all_uppercase = '';
           $all_lowercase = 'De La|De Las|Der|Van De|Van Der|Vit De|Von|Or|And';
       } else {
           // addresses, essay titles ... and anything else
           $all_uppercase = 'Po|Rr|Se|Sw|Ne|Nw';
           $all_lowercase = 'A|And|As|By|In|Of|Or|To';
       }
       $prefixes = 'Mc';
       $suffixes = "'S";

       // captialize all first letters
       $str = preg_replace('/\\b(\\w)/e', 'strtoupper("$1")', strtolower(trim($str)));

       if ($all_uppercase) {
           // capitalize acronymns and initialisms e.g. PHP
           $str = preg_replace("/\\b($all_uppercase)\\b/e", 'strtoupper("$1")', $str);
       }
       if ($all_lowercase) {
           // decapitalize short words e.g. and
           if ($is_name) {
               // all occurences will be changed to lowercase
               $str = preg_replace("/\\b($all_lowercase)\\b/e", 'strtolower("$1")', $str);
           } else {
               // first and last word will not be changed to lower case (i.e. titles)
               $str = preg_replace("/(?<=\\W)($all_lowercase)(?=\\W)/e", 'strtolower("$1")', $str);
           }
       }
       if ($prefixes) {
           // capitalize letter after certain name prefixes e.g 'Mc'
           $str = preg_replace("/\\b($prefixes)(\\w)/e", '"$1".strtoupper("$2")', $str);
       }
       if ($suffixes) {
           // decapitalize certain word suffixes e.g. 's
           $str = preg_replace("/(\\w)($suffixes)\\b/e", '"$1".strtolower("$2")', $str);
       }
       return $str;
    }

    // A name example
    print my_ucwords("MARIE-LOU VAN DER PLANCK-ST.JOHN", true);
    // Output: Marie-Lou van der Planc-St.John

    // A title example
    print my_ucwords("to be or not to be");
    // Output: "To Be or Not to Be"
    lev at phpfox dot com
    9 years ago
    In the function ucsmart() posted by ieure at php dot net on 04-Dec-2005 11:57, I found a similar problem in this function to what he found in igua's.

    <?php
    function ucsmart($text)
    {
       return     preg_replace('/([^a-z]|^)([a-z])/e', '"$1".strtoupper("$2")',
                               strtolower($text));
    }
    ?>

    "igua's code adds a backslash in front of the first single quote for me. This doesn't alter the content in any way other than changing case."

    Actually, it did end up changing the content for me (php 5.0.4) in the way that this function escapes a single quotation (apostrophe) in the MIDDLE of a word.

    For example:

    who's online?

    Became:

    Who\'s Online?

    The fix is simple however, and merely requires fine-tuning the regular expression:

    <?php
    function ucsmart($text)
    {
       return     preg_replace('/([^a-z\']|^)([a-z])/e', '"$1".strtoupper("$2")',
                               strtolower($text));
    }
    ?>

    (note: while previewing this note before adding it, I am noticing php's website is not correctly displaying the change I made as I wrote it. After the first a-z in the expression, the single quotation should be escaped... If it isn't you will get a parse error! And apoligies if my text here is colored as php code; not my fault!)

    This will not escape a single quotation mark which occurs in the middle of a word... Though, you may find that might need to add other characters inside the regular expression if you use other special characters inside your words and if you get funky output.

    It's a great expression though! Simple, yet very powerful. Kudos!
    haijerome at gmail dot com
    4 years ago
    Recently i got a request from a client to make the first letter of any word in capital even they are separated by hyphen.

    Eg : donzé pierre-yves      => Donzé Pierre-Yves
           joye-cagnard frédéric => Joye-Cagnard Frédéric

    ucwords("donzé pierre-yves") can make it display
    Donzé Pierre-yves but actually i need even the first letter of the second word to be in capital.

    So in order to get this i have just written a function below and it works fine. But i hope there would be a better and easier way to do this if so kindly share.

    <?php

    $str     = "donzé pierre-yves";
    echo     ucwordsHyphen($str); /*returns Donzé Pierre-Yves*/

    function ucwordsHyphen($str){
                            $converted_str = "";
                            $str_array = explode(" ",$str);
                        foreach(    $str_array as $key=>$value):
                            if(    strpos($value, '-')):
                                     $value = str_replace("-", " ", $value);
                                     $value = ucwords(strtolower($value));
                                     $value = str_replace(" ", "-", $value);
                            else:
                                    $value = ucwords(strtolower($value));
                            endif;
                                $converted_str .= " ".$value;
                        endforeach;
                       return     $converted_str;
                }
    ?>

    Thanks.
    And Proud to be a PHP Programmer always :-)
    babel - nospamplease - sympatico - ca
    12 years ago
    Correction to the code of firewire at itsyourdomain dot com:

    preg_replace_callback('/\b(\w)(\w+)?/',
       create_function('$a',
       'return strtoupper($a[1]) . ((sizeof($a) > 2 ) ? 
           strtolower($a[2]) : "");'),
        'p.s.: hello.this is my string.');

    Will work with punctuation as well as spaces.
    max at phoenixweb dot it
    9 years ago
    I have rewritten a UCSMART function adding a feature to translate special ASCII char (windows occidental ascii charset):

    You can edit/add/delete char by use the first two string (be carefull to preserve the order of the string).

    Enjoy!

    <?
    $ASCII_SPC_MIN = "àáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöùúûüýÿžš";
    $ASCII_SPC_MAX = "ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖÙÚÛÜÝŸŽŠ";

    function str2upper($text) {
        global $ASCII_SPC_MIN,$ASCII_SPC_MAX;
        return strtr(strtoupper($text),$ASCII_SPC_MIN,$ASCII_SPC_MAX);
    }
    function str2lower($text) {
        global $ASCII_SPC_MIN,$ASCII_SPC_MAX;
        return strtr(strtolower($text),$ASCII_SPC_MAX,$ASCII_SPC_MIN);
    }
    function ucsmart($text) {
        global $ASCII_SPC_MIN;
        return preg_replace(
            '/([^a-z'.$ASCII_SPC_MIN.']|^)([a-z'.$ASCII_SPC_MIN.'])/e',
            '"$1".str2upper("$2")',
            str2lower($text)
        );
    }
    ?>

    Massimiliano Cuttini
    ahmet363 at gmail dot com
    4 years ago
    Turkish character with the ucwords function...

    <?php
    function ucwords_tr($gelen){

          $sonuc='';

          $kelimeler=explode(" ", $gelen);

      foreach (    $kelimeler as $kelime_duz){

            $kelime_uzunluk=strlen($kelime_duz);
            $ilk_karakter=mb_substr($kelime_duz,0,1,'UTF-8');

        if(    $ilk_karakter=='Ç' or $ilk_karakter=='ç'){

              $ilk_karakter='Ç';

        }elseif (    $ilk_karakter=='Ğ' or $ilk_karakter=='ğ') {

              $ilk_karakter='Ğ';

        }elseif(    $ilk_karakter=='I' or $ilk_karakter=='ı'){

              $ilk_karakter='I';

        }elseif (    $ilk_karakter=='İ' or $ilk_karakter=='i'){

              $ilk_karakter='İ';

        }elseif (    $ilk_karakter=='Ö' or $ilk_karakter=='ö'){

              $ilk_karakter='Ö';

        }elseif (    $ilk_karakter=='Ş' or $ilk_karakter=='ş'){

              $ilk_karakter='Ş';

        }elseif (    $ilk_karakter=='Ü' or $ilk_karakter=='ü'){

              $ilk_karakter='Ü';

        }else{

              $ilk_karakter=strtoupper($ilk_karakter);

        }

            $digerleri=mb_substr($kelime_duz,1,$kelime_uzunluk,'UTF-8');
            $sonuc.=$ilk_karakter.kucuk_yap($digerleri).' ';

      }

          $son=trim(str_replace('  ', ' ', $sonuc));
      return     $son;

    }

    function     kucuk_yap($gelen){

          $gelen=str_replace('Ç', 'ç', $gelen);
          $gelen=str_replace('Ğ', 'ğ', $gelen);
          $gelen=str_replace('I', 'ı', $gelen);
          $gelen=str_replace('İ', 'i', $gelen);
          $gelen=str_replace('Ö', 'ö', $gelen);
          $gelen=str_replace('Ş', 'ş', $gelen);
          $gelen=str_replace('Ü', 'ü', $gelen);
          $gelen=strtolower($gelen);

      return     $gelen;
    }

    echo     ucwords_tr('ŞEKardi ŞEMŞİYE ĞELENÖ ÖMER'); // Şekardi Şemşiye Ğelenö Ömer
    echo ucwords_tr('şEKER iMSAK şÖLEN'); // Şeker İmsak Şölen
    majd87 at gmail dot com
    7 years ago
    I modified Q1712's code (below) to use regular expressions
    instead of characters to properly capitalize words that fall
    directly after an unwanted character. See his post for details.

    This version allows me to use it around html elements, etc.

    <?php
            function my_ucwords($string){

                $invalid_characters = array('"',
                                            '\(',
                                            '\[',
                                            '\/',
                                            '<.*?>',
                                            '<\/.*?>');

            foreach(    $invalid_characters as $regex){
                    $string = preg_replace('/('.$regex.')/','$1 ',$string);
            }

                $string=ucwords($string);

            foreach(    $invalid_characters as $regex){
                    $string = preg_replace('/('.$regex.') /','$1',$string);
            }

            return     $string;
        }
    ?>

    Moreover, to get a proper title case, i combine it with this function:

    This Function is obtained from:
    http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/716

    <?php
            function title_case($title) {
                $smallwordsarray = array(
                    'of','a','the','and','an','or','nor','but','is','if','then',
    'else','when',
                    'at','from','by','on','off','for','in','out',
    'over','to','into','with'
                );

                $words = explode(' ', $title);
            foreach (    $words as $key => $word)
            {
                if (    $key == 0 or !in_array($word, $smallwordsarray))
                    $words[$key] = $this->my_ucwords(strtolower($word));
            }

                $newtitle = implode(' ', $words);
            return     $newtitle;
        }
    ?>
    Hope you find it useful.
    blake at goinoutwest dot com
    8 years ago
    Relating to the mb_ucwords() function posted by Anonymous.  In order for this to actually be multi-byte compliant, you would also need to use mb_substr() and mb_strlen() instead of substr and strlen respectively.

    Here it is corrected and extended even further to allow multiple word separators and a list of exceptions to correct after title casing. It's a bit tedious and inelegant, but things frequently are when dealing with human languages.

    function mb_ucwords($str) {
        $exceptions = array();
        $exceptions['Hp'] = 'HP';
        $exceptions['Ibm'] = 'IBM';
        $exceptions['Gb'] = 'GB';
        $exceptions['Mb'] = 'MB';
        $exceptions['Cd'] = 'CD';
        $exceptions['Dvd'] = 'DVD';
        $exceptions['Usb'] = 'USB';
        $exceptions['Mm'] = 'mm';
        $exceptions['Cm'] = 'cm';
        //    etc.
       
        $separator = array(" ","-","+");
       
        $str = mb_strtolower(trim($str));
        foreach($separator as $s){
            $word = explode($s, $str);

            $return = "";
            foreach ($word as $val){
                $return .= $s . mb_strtoupper($val{0}) . mb_substr($val,1,mb_strlen($val)-1);
            }
            $str = mb_substr($return, 1);
        }

        foreach($exceptions as $find=>$replace){
            if (mb_strpos($return, $find) !== false){
                $return = str_replace($find, $replace, $return);
            }
        }
        return mb_substr($return, 1);
    }
    radley25 at nospam dot spamcop dot net
    10 years ago
    In response to joshuamallory at yahoo dot com:

    Using CSS to fix a PHP fault is not the ideal way to solve a problem. CSS is browser dependent and can only be used when the data is presented in a web page. A better fix would be something like this:

    <?php
    function better_ucwords($string) {
           $string = ucwords($string);
           $string = preg_replace('#[\\/][a-z]#e', "strtoupper('$0')", $string);
       return     $string;
    }
    ?>
    Greg S
    7 years ago
    I did the same thing as Catalin, but for French names.

    Here's what I'm doing :

    For each word (not considering the single-quote as a word boundary character) :
    - Put the word in lower case
    - If the word is "de", return, else, put the first letter in upper-case
    - See if the second character of the word is a single-quote
    - Yes ? Put the next char in upper case
    - And if the char before the single quote is D, put it back to lower case (-> d)

    This complies with the French rules for capitalization in names.

    Sample results :
    -d'Afoo Bar
    -de Foo Bar
    -O'Foo Bar
    -Foo'bar

    <?php
    function my_ucwords($s) {
                $s = preg_replace_callback("/(\b[\w|']+\b)/s", fixcase_callback, $s);
           
            return     $s;        
           
        }
       
        function     fixcase_callback($word) {

                $word = $word[1];
           
                $word = strtolower($word);
           
            if(    $word == "de")
                return     $word;
           
                $word = ucfirst($word);
           
            if(    substr($word,1,1) == "'") {
                if(    substr($word,0,1) == "D") {
                        $word = strtolower($word);
                }
                    $next = substr($word,2,1);
                    $next = strtoupper($next);
                    $word = substr_replace($word, $next, 2, 1);
            }
           
            return     $word;
        }
    ?>
    Q1712 at online dot ms
    8 years ago
    ucwords() only excepts whitespace in front of a word, although some chars like '"' or '(' normally have no space between them and the following word:
    <?php
    $title     = 'ELVIS "THE KING" PRESLEY - (LET ME BE YOUR) TEDDY BEAR';
    echo     ucwords(strtolower($title));
    ?>
    prints: Elvis "the King" Presley - (let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear

    To avoid this i use a small function adding and deleting blanks behind these chars, and using ucwords() in between:

    <?php
    function my_ucwords($string)
      {
            $noletters='"([/'; //add more if u need to
            for($i=0; $i<strlen($noletters); $i++)
              $string = str_replace($noletters[$i], $noletters[$i].' ', $string);
            $string=ucwords($string);
        for(    $i=0; $i<strlen($noletters); $i++)
              $string = str_replace($noletters[$i].' ', $noletters[$i], $string);
        return     $string;
      }

    $title = 'ELVIS "THE KING" PRESLEY - (LET ME BE YOUR) TEDDY BEAR';
    echo     my_ucwords(strtolower($title));
    ?>

    prints: Elvis "The King" Presley - (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
    ieure at php dot net
    10 years ago
    Whoa guys, tone things down a bit here. No need to loop and implode. This is a one-line solution:

    function ucsmart($text)
    {
        return preg_replace('/([^a-z]|^)([a-z])/e', '"$1".strtoupper("$2")',
                            strtolower($text));
    }

    igua's code adds a backslash in front of the first single quote for me. This doesn't alter the content in any way other than changing case.
    OneOfOne
    2 years ago
    This function will work on anything, not just words separated by spaces. (eg: 'ac/bc/dc,xc zz' => 'Ac/Bc/Dc,Xc Zz')

    function ucwords_all($str) {
        return preg_replace_callback('/\b(\w)/', function($m) {
            return strtoupper($m[0]);
        }, $str);
    }
    strazds at gmail dot com
    7 years ago
    ucwords for UTF-8 strings:

    <?php
    function mb_ucwords($str) {
            $str = mb_convert_case($str, MB_CASE_TITLE, "UTF-8");
        return (    $str);
    }
    ?>
    qeremy [atta] gmail [dotta] com
    4 years ago
    A proper Turkish solution;

    <?php
    function ucfirst_turkish($str) {
            $tmp = preg_split("//u", $str, 2, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
        return     mb_convert_case(
                str_replace("i", "İ", $tmp[0]), MB_CASE_TITLE, "UTF-8").
                $tmp[1];
    }

    function     ucwords_turkish($str) {
        return     preg_replace("/(\\w+)/ue", "ucfirst_turkish('\\\\1').'$2'", $str);
    }

    $str = "iyilik güzelLİK şeker ";
    echo     ucwords($str) ."\\n";   // Iyilik GüzelLİK şeker
    echo ucwords_turkish($str); // İyilik GüzelLİK Şeker
    ?>
    haijerome at gmail dot com
    4 years ago
    Thanks a lot brother.

    I tested it with a few variations. It works perfectly. Its really great and simple usage of the existing functions. It would be glad to all PHP folks and good to PHP if these kind of functions will be in PHP library on upcoming releases.

    <?php

    $name1     = "mark-yves robert";
    $name2 = "mark-yves robert-bryan";

    echo     '<br/>Name 1 (mark-yves robert) =>'.
    ucwordspecific($name1,'-'); //returns Mark-Yves Robert

    echo '<br/>Name 2 (mark-yves robert-bryan)

    =>'    .ucwordspecific($name2,'-');
    //returns Mark-Yves Robert-Bryan

    function ucwordspecific($str,$delimiter){
    $delimiter_space = '- ';
    return     str_replace($delimiter_space,$delimiter,ucwords

    (str_replace($delimiter,$delimiter_space,$str)));
    }

    ?>

    Proud to be a PHP enthusiast always :-)
    Anonymous
    4 years ago
    Make the first letter of any word in capital even they are separated by hyphen.

    Eg : donzé pierre-yves      => Donzé Pierre-Yves
            joye-cagnard frédéric => Joye-Cagnard Frédéric

    <?php

    $str     = "donzé pierre-yves";
    echo     ucwordsHyphen($str); /*returns Donzé Pierre-Yves*/

    function ucwordsHyphen($str){
        return     str_replace('- ','-',ucwords(str_replace('-','- ',$str)));
    }
    ?>

    Thanks.
    barnaby ritchley at exeye dot co dot uk
    9 years ago
    A very easy way to convert to title case:

    function titleCase($string)
         {
         return ucwords(strtolower($string));
         }

    $myString = "SOME TEXT";

    echo titleCase($myString);

    //will print, "My Text"
    almino dot melo at gmail dot com
    2 months ago
    ucwords for human names in Brazil.
    ucwords personalizada para nomes próprios brasileiros.

    <?php
            /**
         * ucwords for human names in Brazil
         * Edit from http://php.net/manual/pt_BR/function.ucwords.php#112795
         * @param string $str
         * @param array $delimiters
         * @param array $exceptions Exceptions are words you don't want converted
         * @return string
         */
            function name($str, $delimiters = array(
                " ",
                "-",
                ".",
                "'",
                "O'",
                "Mc",
        ),     $exceptions = array(
                "de",
                "do",
                "da",
                "dos",
                "das",
        )) {
                $result = '';

            foreach (    $delimiters as $delimiter) {
                    # If string has a delimiter
                    if (strstr($str, $delimiter)) {

                        $ucfirst = array();
                        # Apply ucfirst to every word
                        foreach (explode($delimiter, mb_strtolower($str)) as $word) {
                            $word = mb_convert_case($word, MB_CASE_TITLE);

                            # Working with exceptions
                            if (in_array(mb_strtoupper($word), $exceptions)) {
                                $word = mb_strtoupper($word);
                        } elseif (    in_array(mb_strtolower($word), $exceptions)) {
                                $word = mb_strtolower($word);
                        } elseif (    preg_match('/^M{0,4}(CM|CD|D?C{0,3})(XC|XL|L?X{0,3})(IX|IV|V?I{0,3})$/', mb_strtoupper($word))) {
                                # Is roman numerals? # http://stackoverflow.com/a/267405/437459
                                $word = mb_strtoupper($word);
                        }

                            $ucfirst[] = $word;
                    }

                        # string's first character uppercased
                        $result = implode($delimiter, $ucfirst);
                }
            }

            return     $result;
        }
    ?>
    Lech
    8 months ago
    This will correct capitalisation in names taking note of special capitalisation for Mc..., Mac..., and O'... Other special cases, of which I am not aware, can be added easily.

    This is just a slight improvement on "deepdene at email dot com"'s name_case function... Thank you for original function.

    <?php

    function name_case($name) {
        if( !    $name ) return $name;
            $newname = strtoupper($name[0]);
            $break = false;
        for(     $i=1; $i<strlen($name); ++$i ) {
              $subed = substr($name, $i, 1);
          if(     ord($subed) > 64 && ord($subed) < 123 || ord($subed) > 48 && ord($subed) < 58 ) {
            if(     $break ) {
                  $newname .= strtoupper($subed);
            }
            elseif(     $i > 1 && in_array(substr($newname, $i-2, 2), array('Mc', 'O\'')) || $i > 2 && in_array(substr($newname, $i-3, 3), array('Mac')) ) {
                  $newname .= strtoupper($subed);
            }
            else {
                  $newname .= strtolower($subed);
            }
                $break = false;
          }
          else {
                // not a letter - a boundary
                $newname .= $subed;
                $break = true;
          }
        }  
        return     $newname;

    ?>
    coder22 at nycap dot rr dot com
    10 months ago
    After a while of trial and error it appears that ucwords does not convert a string that is already in all caps to the ucwords format as inidcated in the beginning of the function manual.

    for example,
    $a = my text
    $b = ucwords($a)
    echo $b = My Text.

    However:
    $a = MY TEXT;
    $b = ucwords($a)
    echo $b = MY TEXT

    if the string is already uppercase, the function will not use strtolower then ucwords which is interpreted up above.  I just wanted people to know that.  I could not figure out what was going on.
    Alex Milkovskyi
    11 months ago
    Convert string to in camel-case, useful for class name patterns:
    <?php
    /**
       * Convert string to in camel-case, useful for class name patterns.
       *
       * @param $string
       *   Target string.
       *
       * @return string
       *   Camel-case string.
       */
    function toCamelCase($string){
            $string = str_replace('-', ' ', $string);
            $string = str_replace('_', ' ', $string);
            $string = ucwords(strtolower($string));
            $string = str_replace(' ', '', $string);
        return     $string;
    }
    ?>

    Example:
    toCamelCase(make_mE camel-case pLEase) will return:
    MakeMeCamelCasePlease
    dyer85 at gmail dot com
    7 years ago
    When attempting to adopt a solution similar to Catalin's post (20-Oct-2008 10:14), I ran into some additional problems. Just a heads up, Catalin's wasn't capitalizing correctly when a name like "O'reilley" appeared at the start of the string or a new line. Also, it doesn't account for locale-sensitivity.

    I also needed to recognize additional Irish surnames, such as "McArthur/MacArthur" or "FitzGerald". I also didn't want to misinterpret French as an Irish surname, so, "S'il vous plaît" shouldn't result in the "i" in "S'il" capitalized.

    I modified Catalin's version, but it's still not perfect. This version happened to suit my needs, so be sure to assess your own needs before using.

    <?php

    function my_ucwords($str)
    {
            $str = ucwords($str);

            // Not perfect
            return preg_replace(
                '/
                (?: ^ | \\b )         # assertion: beginning of string or a word boundary
                ( O\' | Ma?c | Fitz)  # attempt to match Irish surnames
                ( [^\W\d_] )          # match next char; we exclude digits and _ from \w
            /xe'    ,
                "'\$1' . strtoupper('\$2')",
                $str);
    }

    ?>
    sunamak at odeva dot com
    2 years ago
    function ucwords_tr($str) {
        return mb_convert_case(str_replace(array('i', 'I'),    array('İ', 'ı'), $str), MB_CASE_TITLE, 'UTF-8');
    }
    ATOLYE15
    2 years ago
    This solution is a proper use of capitalize first letters of "TURKISH" sentence by ATÖLYE15 crew.

    function ucwordstr($sentence)
    {
            $letters = array('I','İ','Ç','Ş','Ü','Ö','Ğ');
            $replace = array('ı','i','ç','ş','ü','ö','ğ');

            $sentence = mb_strtolower(str_replace($letters,$replace,$sentence),"UTF-8");

            $words = array();

            foreach(explode(" ",$sentence) as $word)
            {
                $first = str_replace($replace,$letters,mb_substr($word, 0, 1, "UTF-8"));
                $other = mb_substr($word,1,strlen($word)-1,"UTF-8");

                $words[] = $first.$other;
            }

            $sentence = implode(" ",$words);

            return ucwords($sentence);
    }
    deepdene at email dot com
    13 years ago
    A function knowing about name case (i.e. caps on McDonald etc)

    function name_case($name)
    {
        $newname = strtoupper($name[0]);   
        for ($i=1; $i < strlen($name); $i++)
        {
            $subed = substr($name, $i, 1);    
            if (((ord($subed) > 64) && (ord($subed) < 123)) ||
                ((ord($subed) > 48) && (ord($subed) < 58)))
            {
                $word_check = substr($name, $i - 2, 2);
                if (!strcasecmp($word_check, 'Mc') || !strcasecmp($word_check, "O'"))
                {
                    $newname .= strtoupper($subed); 
                }
                else if ($break)
                {
                   
                    $newname .= strtoupper($subed);
                }
                else      
                {
                    $newname .= strtolower($subed);
                }
                 $break=0;
            }
            else
            {
                // not a letter - a boundary
                 $newname .= $subed;
                $break=1;
            }
        }   
        return $newname;
    }
    kendsnyder at gmail dot com
    8 years ago
    Here is a function to capitalize a last name, accounting for hyphens, apostrophes, "Mc" and "Mac":

    <?php
    function CapitalizeLastName($name) {
            $name = strtolower($name);
            $name = join("'", array_map('ucwords', explode("'", $name)));
            $name = join("-", array_map('ucwords', explode("-", $name)));
            $name = join("Mac", array_map('ucwords', explode("Mac", $name)));
            $name = join("Mc", array_map('ucwords', explode("Mc", $name)));
        return     $name;
    }
    ?>

    I speed tested it against functions that used preg_replace() with an "e" modifier, preg_replace_callback(), and a character-by-character parsing.  Unexpectedly, this function using join(), array_map() and explode() was fastest.
    Philippe
    4 years ago
    Because I needed a function that did the same as the function proper in Excel I created this little function :

    <?php
    function proper($string){
     
            $string = strtolower($string);
       
            $lettersAndNumbers = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz01234565789';
       
            $string[0] = strtoupper($string[0]);
       
        for (    $index = 1;$index < strlen($string);$index++){
          if (    strpos($lettersAndNumbers, $string[$index]) === false){
            if (    $index +1 < strlen($string)){
                  $string[$index+1] = strtoupper($string[$index+1]);
                  $index++;
            }
          }
        }
     
        return(    $string);
       
      }
    ?>
    Anonymous
    14 years ago
    This seems to be what people want:

    function uc_all($string) {
        $temp = preg_split('/(\W)/', $string, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE );
        foreach ($temp as $key=>$word) {
            $temp[$key] = ucfirst(strtolower($word));
        }
        return join ('', $temp);
    }

    [ed note: fixed the code to be correct]
    gabe at fijiwebdesign dot com
    4 years ago
    Another ucwords function with custom separator.

    <?php
    function ucwords_custom($str, $sep)
    {
        return     preg_replace_callback('/' . preg_quote($sep) . './i', create_function(
                '$match',
                'return strtoupper($match[0][1]);'
            ), $str);
    }
    ?>

    or simpler with PHP5.3

    <?php
    function ucwords_custom2($str, $sep = ' ')
    {
        return     preg_replace_callback('/' . preg_quote($sep) . './i', function($match) {
            return     strtoupper($match[0][1]);
        },     $str);
    }
    ?>
    Sebstian Espinosa
    4 years ago
    Is more simple to use str_replace to use ucwords without using space as separator like:

    <?php

    function ucwordsEx($str, $separator){

              $str = str_replace($separator, " ", $str);
              $str = ucwords(strtolower($str));
              $str = str_replace(" ", $separator, $str);
          return     $str;

    }
    /*
    Example:
    */
    echo ucwordsEx("HELLO-my-NAME-iS-maNolO", "-");
    /*
    Prints: "Hello My Name Is Manolo"
    */

    ?>
    Ismet Togay
    9 years ago
    Response to arif:

    We do not need that long functions. In order to make ucwords() worked properly in Turkish words that contain speacial characters, we can use the following command in our php codes:

    setlocale(LC_ALL, 'tr_TR');

    This will set locale to Turkish.
    neil at no-spam-ents24 dot com
    15 years ago
    The code posted above by Joerg Krause only works for a string which ends with one of the delimiters. A possible fix is:

    <?php
    $text     = "What?No delimiters,shit happens here.this solves all problems.";
    preg_match_all("/(\w+[,. ?])+/U", $text, $words);
    preg_match("/(\w+)$/", $text, $lastword);
    $words[0][] = $lastword;
    foreach(    $words[0] as $part) $uwords[] = ucfirst($part);
    $text = implode("", $uwords);
    echo     $text;
    ?>
    Florian
    1 year ago
    to convert first letters in a firstname like: "jean-pierre" to "Jean-Pierre":

    I simply replace the '-' with a vertical tabulation, because the ucwords() function replace the letter just after it.

    so, I use the sentence:
    $result=str_replace(chr(11),'-',ucwords(strtolower(str_replace('-',chr(11),$firstname))));
    Kovik
    6 years ago
    ucwords() only uses whitespace as a delimiter. I found that I needed the ability to use other delimiters for denoting words.

    Example: Transforming "content-type" into "Content-Type".

    <?php
    /**
    * Capitalize all words
    * @param string Data to capitalize
    * @param string Word delimiters
    * @return string Capitalized words
    */
    function capitalizeWords($words, $charList = null) {
            // Use ucwords if no delimiters are given
            if (!isset($charList)) {
            return     ucwords($words);
        }
       
            // Go through all characters
            $capitalizeNext = true;
       
        for (    $i = 0, $max = strlen($words); $i < $max; $i++) {
            if (    strpos($charList, $words[$i]) !== false) {
                    $capitalizeNext = true;
            } else if (    $capitalizeNext) {
                    $capitalizeNext = false;
                    $words[$i] = strtoupper($words[$i]);
            }
        }
       
        return     $words;
    }
    ?>

    Testing:
    <?php
    echo capitalizeWords('this is a test');  // This Is A Test
    echo capitalizeWords('this-is-a-test');  // This-is-a-test
    echo capitalizeWords('this is a test', ' ');  // This Is A Test
    echo capitalizeWords('this-is-a-test', '-');  // This-Is-A-Test
    echo capitalizeWords('this-is a-test', ' ');  // This-is A-test
    echo capitalizeWords('this-is a-test', '-');  // This-Is a-Test
    echo capitalizeWords('this-is a-test', ' -');  // This-Is A-Test
    ?>
    Catalin
    7 years ago
    I have looked for a work-around that would upper-case letter after an ' too.

    For example,

    ucword("o'lunney's");

    would output "O'lunney's" and I wanted it to output "O'Lunney's".

    Here is my function:

    <?php
    function my_ucwords($string) {
                $string = ucwords(strtolower($string));
                $string = preg_replace_callback("/( [ a-zA-Z]{1}')([a-zA-Z0-9]{1})/s",create_function('$matches','return $matches[1].strtoupper($matches[2]);'),$string);
            return     $string;
    }
    ?>

    Hope it helps someone.
    Alex
    7 years ago
    A modified sentenceNormalizer by gregomm

    Features:
    1- Removes duplicated question marks, exclamations and periods
    2- Capitalize first letter of a sentence.
    3- Split sentences not only with "." but also with "?" and "!"
    4- Puts a white space at the end of each sentence
    5- Retains newlines

    --removed from orginal function--
    undestand the meaning of "¡" and "¿" in languages like spanish.
    undestand the htmlentitity version of this simbols.
    --removed from orginal function--

    <?php
    function sentenceNormalizer($sentence_split) {
            $sentence_split = preg_replace(array('/[!]+/','/[?]+/','/[.]+/'),
                                       array(    '!','?','.'),$sentence_split);       
       
            $textbad = preg_split("/(\!|\.|\?|\n)/", $sentence_split,-1,PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
            $newtext = array();
            $count = sizeof($textbad);
       
        foreach(    $textbad as $key => $string) {
            if (!empty(    $string)) {
                    $text = trim($string, ' ');
                    $size = strlen($text);
               
                if (    $size > 1){    
                        $newtext[] = ucfirst(strtolower($text));
                }
                    elseif (    $size == 1) {
                            $newtext[] = ($text == "\n") ? $text : $text . ' ';
                    }     
            }
        }
       
        return     implode($newtext);
    }
    ?>
    gregomm at gmail dot com
    7 years ago
    An improved of ucsentence. In fact its a function to avoid ugly data entry. It's based on code taken from this page. Can be inproved for better performance, of course...

    Features:
    1- removes duplicated question marks, an exclamations
    2- Capitalize first letter of a sentence.
    3- split sentences not only with "." but also with "?" and "!"
    4- Puts a white space at the begining of each sentence
    5- undestand the meaning of "¡" and "¿" in languages like spanish.
    6- undestand the htmlentitity version of this simbols.

        function sentenceNormalizer( $sentence_split ) {
           
            $sentence_split = preg_replace("/[!]+/","!",$sentence_split);
            $sentence_split = preg_replace("/[¡]+/","¡",$sentence_split);
            $sentence_split = preg_replace("/[?]+/","?",$sentence_split);
            $sentence_split = preg_replace("/[¿]+/","¿",$sentence_split);       
                   
            $textbad = preg_split("/(\<[a-zA-Z0-9-]*\>".
    "\!(\s)?|\.(\s)?|\?(\s)?|¿(\s)?|¡(\s)?".
    "|&iquest;(\s)?|&iexcl;(\s)?)/",
             $sentence_split,-1,PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
            $newtext = array();
            $count = sizeof($textbad);
           
            $prevStr ="";
           
            for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++){
               
                $text = trim($textbad[$i]);
                $size = strlen($text);
               
                if ($size>1){           

                    $sentencegood=ucfirst(strtolower($text));                 
                   
                    if ($i>0 && $prevStr != '¿' && $prevStr != '¡' && $prevStr !="&iquest;" && $prevStr !="&iexcl;"){
                        $sentencegood =" ".$sentencegood;
                    }
                    $newtext[] = $sentencegood;
                    $prevStr =$text;
                   
                }elseif($size==1 ){
                   
                    if ($i>0 && ($text == '¿' || $text == '¡' || $prevStr =="&iquest;" || $prevStr =="&iexcl;") ){
                        $newtext[] =" ".$text;                   
                    }else{
                        $newtext[] =$text;
                    }
                    $prevStr =$text;
                }
               
            }
       
            $textgood = implode($newtext);
            return $textgood;
        }
    NoName
    8 years ago
    For strings with diactrical marks (umlauts, etc.), consider mb_convert_case.
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    Function to do what ucwords is intended to do - just correctly also for international char sets:

    function mb_ucwords($s)
    {
        $s = mb_strtolower(trim($s));
        $w = explode(" ", $s);
       
        $return = "";
        foreach ($w as $val)
        {
            $return .= " " . mb_strtoupper($val{0}) . substr($val,1,strlen($val)-1);
        }
        return trim($return);
    }

    Building on an earlier snippet here.
    Julienc at psychologie-fr dot com
    14 years ago
    Its still possible to clean a bit more the previous sample:

    $string=strtolower($string); $break=true;
    for ($i=0; $i < strlen($string); $i++) { $subed=$string[$i];
    if (((ord($subed) > 64) && (ord($subed) < 123)) || ((ord($subed) > 48) && (ord($subed) < 58))) {
    if ($break) { $string[$i] = strtoupper($subed); }
    $break=false; } else { $break=true; }
    }

    - Julien
    marco at hotelsandgo dot com
    9 years ago
    ucwords that works also with apices: '
    for example: "aquila d'abruzzo" became "Aquila d'Abruzzo"
    The second part after the // comment can removed! Is optimized for italian language (leave lowercase articles, prepositions, conjunctions) but easily changeable. Notice che "'s"!! for example "hotel 2000's" becames "Hotel 2000's".

        function my_ucwords($s)
            {
            $a=strtolower($s);
            $s=ucfirst($a);
            for($x=0; $x<strlen($s)-1; $x++)
                if(!ctype_alpha($s[$x])) $s[$x+1]=strtoupper($s[$x+1]);

            //Lascia minuscoli articoli, preposizioni, congiunzioni
            $minuscole=array("il", "lo", "la", "i", "gli", "le",                //ARTICOLI DETERMINATIVI
                     "un", "uno", "una",                        //ARTICOLI INDETERMINATIVI
                     "e",  "d", "l", "s", "un",                    //CONGIUNZIONI e CONTRATTI
                     "di", "a", "da", "in", "con", "su", "per", "tra", "fra",    //PREPOSIZIONI SEMPLICI
                     "del", "dello", "della", "dei", "degli", "delle",        //PREPOSIZIONI ARTICOLATE
                     "a", "al", "allo", "alla", "ai", "agli", "alle",
                     "da", "dal", "dallo", "dalla", "dai", "dagli", "dalle",
                     "in", "nel", "nello", "nella", "nei", "negli", "nelle",
                     "con", "col", "collo", "colla", "coi", "cogli", "colle",
                     "su", "sul", "sullo", "sulla", "sui", "sugli", "sulle",
                     "per", "pel", "pei");
           
            foreach($minuscole as $value)
                {
                $pos=strpos($a, $value);
                if( ( $pos>0 && $pos<strlen($s)-1 && !ctype_alpha($a[$pos-1]) && !ctype_alpha($a[$pos+1]) )    //CARATTERE IN MEZZO
                ||  ( $pos==strlen($s)-1 && !ctype_alpha($a[$pos-1]) ) )                    //CASO PARTICOLARE: carattere in fondo. x es: "hotel 2000's"
                    $s[$pos]=strtolower($s[$pos]);
                }

            return $s;
            }

        function my_ucwords_essential($s)
            {
            $a=strtolower($s);
            $s=ucfirst($a);
            for($x=0; $x<strlen($s)-1; $x++)
                if(!ctype_alpha($s[$x])) $s[$x+1]=strtoupper($s[$x+1]);

            return $s;
            }

    Can be rewritten better, I Know
    philip at fcknet dot dk
    9 years ago
    Before noticing this function I made the following function (that does the same as ucwords):

    <?php
    function firstUpper($string)
    {
            $string = str_replace(array("Æ","Ø","Å"), array("æ","ø","å"), strtolower($string));
            $ord = explode(" ", $string);
       
            $return = "";
        foreach (    $ord as $val)
        {

                $return .= " " . str_replace(array("æ","ø","å"), array("Æ","Ø","Å"), strtoupper($val{0})) . substr($val,1,strlen($val)-1);
        }
        return     $return;
    }
    ?>

    It also converts Danish letters without using the setlocale function.
    starmonkey [at] evolove [dot] net
    9 years ago
    Simple helper function to walk through a nested array of strings and upper case them:

    <?php
    /**
    * Helper function to convert an array of strings to upper case words
    */
    function _capitalize($input) {
        if(    is_array($input)) {
                // recurse through array elements (using a reference)
                foreach($input as &$value) {
                    $value = _capitalize($value);
            }
            return     $input;
        } elseif(    is_string($input)) {
                // process this string
                return ucwords($input);
        } else {
                // all other data types, leave alone
                return $input;
        }
    }
    ?>
    gothicbunny at hotmail dot com
    10 years ago
    Here is a simple, yet winded, opposite to ucwords.

    <?php
    /*
        # lcwords v1.000
        # Convert the first word character to lowercase (opposite to ucwords)
        # input string
        # return string
    */
    function lcwords($string)
    {
            /* Some temporary variables */
        #loop variable
            $a = 0;
            #store all words in this array to be imploded and returned
            $string_new = array();
            #create array of all words
            $string_exp = explode(" ",$string);
        foreach(    $string_exp as $astring)
        {
            for(    $a=0;$a<strlen($astring);$a++)
            {
                    #check that the character we are at {pos $a} is a word
                #i.e. if the word was !A the code would fail at !
                #then loop to the next character and succeed at A
                #check at character position $a
                    if(preg_match("'\w'",$astring[$a]))
                {
                        $astring[$a] = strtolower($astring[$a]);
                        #end the loop
                        break;
                }
            }
                $string_new[] = $astring;
        }
            #recreate the string from array components using space deliminator
            return implode(" ",$string_new);
    }
    ?>

    Of course a simplier way would be to use a callback, but I like working with long code :)
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
    Here's a  piece that allows you to use the contents of a directory..  capitalizes the words and make links.. this particular example splits file names at _ and only selects file with .htm extensions (thought you could use any extension and call it using  include()  or soom such)
    ie my_file_name.htm will produce
    <a href="my_file_name.htm">My File Name</a>

    <?php
    $path     = "/home/path/to/your/directory";
           $mydir = dir($path);
       while((    $file = $mydir->read()) !== false) {
         if(    substr($file, -4)=='.htm'){
            $trans = array("_" => " ", ".htm" => ""); // creates the editing array
            $newlist = strtr($file, $trans); // edits using editing array
            echo "<a href=\"".$file."\">".ucwords($newlist)."</a><br>";
         }
        }
           ?>
    joshuamallory at yahoo dot com
    11 years ago
    If you want to format a string like...

    <?php
        $string     = "computer programming/repair";
        print     ucwords($string);
    ?>

    Output: Computer Programming/repair

    Notice the word after the slash (Programming/repair) isn't capitalized. To fix this, use CSS...

    <?php
        $string     = "computer programming/repair";
        print     '<p style="text-transform:capitalize">';
        print     ucwords($string);
        print     '<p>';
    ?>
    vista_ at live dot se
    7 years ago
    <?php
              if(!function_exists('mb_ucwords'))
          {
                function     mb_ucwords($str)
                {
                      return     mb_convert_case($str, MB_CASE_TITLE, "UTF-8");
                }
          }
    ?>
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