Capital letters after apostrophe or hypen

[Eiolon]

My script forces all names to start with a capital and lower case for the rest.  However, some names have a ' or - in them.

 

For example:

 

Rosie O'Donnell

 

or

 

Carrie-Anne Moss

 

With the script, the "D" in O'Donnell is lower case and the "A" in Anne is lower case.

 

What do I need to do to make them capital?

 

Here is what I am using:

 

<?php echo ucwords(strtolower($row_persons['last_name'])) ?>, <?php echo ucwords(strtolower($row_persons['first_name'])) ?>

[jim_keller]

You may need a regexp for this. Try the code below. It's sort of a complicated regexp that captures the position of the lowercase letter appearing after an apostrophe or a dash, and I haven't tested it, but give it a whirl:

 

 

$name = ucwords(strtolower($row_persons['last_name'])) . ', ' .  ucwords(strtolower($row_persons['first_name']));

preg_match_all('/[\'\-]([a-z])/', $name, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE);
foreach( $matches as $match_data ) {
   $match_text = $match_data[0][0];
   $match_pos = $match_data[1][1];

   $name = substr_replace($name, strtoupper($name), $match_pos);

}

echo "Fixed name is: {$name}<br />\n";

[jim_keller]

*note that I edited the above code after posting

[MatthewJ]

Close...

 

$name = ucwords(strtolower("O'connor")) . ', ' .  ucwords(strtolower("Matthew"));

preg_match_all('/[\'\-]([a-z])/', $name, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE);
foreach( $matches as $match_data ) {

   $match_text = $match_data[0][0];
   $match_pos = strpos($name, $match_text);

   $name = substr_replace($name, ucwords($match_text), $match_pos, 1);

}

echo "Match 1: $match_text <br />Match Pos: $match_pos<br />Fixed name is: {$name}<br />\n";

[MatthewJ]

You could try this as well

 

$name = ucwords(strtolower("O'connor")) . ', ' .  ucwords(strtolower("Matthew"));

if(strpos($name, "'")) {
$pos = strpos($name, "'") + 1;
}

if(strpos($name, "-")) {
$pos = strpos($name, "-") + 1;
}

$name = substr_replace($name, strtoupper($name[$pos]), $pos, 1);


echo "Fixed name is: {$name}<br />\n";