[SOLVED] Changing String Capitalization

[willpower]

$string = "foo bar";

 

echo ucwords($string) //prints Foo Bar

 

but if

 

$stringwithapostrope="mike o'leary";

 

how do i get correct capitalistion after the ' so i get "Mike O'Leary" rather than "Mike O'leary"

 

Thanks

[MFHJoe]

I just did a quick test and:

mb_convert_case($string, MB_CASE_TITLE, "UTF-8");

Appears to work. You may have to chage the UTF-8  to the encoding of your page (although it will probably work anyway).

[JonnoTheDev]

If this is a standalone string then a simple string replace on the letter l would do it but i'm guessing you have a series of strings so a function would be best.

 

function capitalizeName($name) {
$name = str_replace("'", " ' ", $name);
$name = ucwords($name);
$name = str_replace(" ' ", "'", $name);
return $name;
}


print capitalizeName("joe bloggs")."<br />";
print capitalizeName("mike o'leary");

[JonnoTheDev]

MFHJoe's code is also good

[willpower]

thanks to you both