ucwords not working

[garbagedigger]

I have a registration page I am creating which passes Ajax data from a form to the function ProcessSignUpData. I am trying to use ucwords on this function for the name, address and city form fields and it isn't working.  Any Suggestions what be greatly appreciated!  If I am not providing enough information, please let me know!

 

Here is what the code looks like:

 

if ($_POST['ProcessSignUpData'])
{
usleep(3500000);
unset($Data);
$Data['OldCardNbr'] = substr(preg_replace("/[^0-9]*/", "", $_POST['SavingsClub']), -;
$Data['FName'] = ucwords($_POST['FirstName']);
$Data['LName'] = ucwords($_POST['LastName']);
$Data['Address1'] = ucwords($_POST['Address1']);
$Data['Address2'] = ucwords($_POST['Address2']);
$Data['City'] = ucwords($_POST['City']);
$Data['State'] = $_POST['State'];
$Data['Zip'] = preg_replace("/[^0-9]*/", "", $_POST['ZipCode']);
if (ValidateEMail($_POST['EMail'])) $Data['EmailAddr'] = $_POST['EMail'];
$Data['HPhone'] = phone_format($_POST['HomePhone']);
$Data['WPhone'] = phone_format($_POST['MobilePhone']);
$Data['BirthYear'] = preg_replace("/[^0-9]*/", "", $_POST['BirthYear']);
$Data['BirthMo'] = preg_replace("/[^0-9]*/", "", $_POST['BirthMonth']);
$Data['Sex'] = preg_replace("/[^MF]*/", "", $_POST['Gender']);
$NumberOfCards = preg_replace("/[^0-9]*/", "", $_POST['NumberOfCards']);

if ($Data['FName'] && $Data['LName'] && $Data['Address1'] && $Data['City'] && $Data['Zip'])
{
	// Check to see if the person is already signed up with a new card number (dupliate signup check)
	$IsDup = FALSE;

	// First check database SCVL1
	$My->query("select `MembNbr`, `HPhone`, `EmailAddr`, `OldCardNbr` from `member` where `FName` = '" . $My->escape($Data['FName']) . "' and `LName` = '" . $My->escape($Data['LName']) . "' and `State` = '" . $My->escape($Data['State']) . "' and substr(`Zip`, 1, 5) = '" . $My->escape(substr($Data['Zip'], 0, 5)) . "'");
	if ($DupCheck = $My->fetchArray())
	{
		do
		{
			if (substr($DupCheck['MembNbr'], 0, 1) == "6")
			{
				$IsDup = TRUE;
				if ($Data['EmailAddr'] && $DupCheck['EmailAddr'])
				{
					if ($Data['EmailAddr'] != $DupCheck['EmailAddr'])
					{
						$IsDup = FALSE;
					}
				}
				if ($Data['HPhone'] && $DupCheck['HPhone'])
				{
					if ($Data['HPhone'] != $DupCheck['HPhone'])
					{
						$IsDup = FALSE;
					}
				}
			}
			if ($IsDup === TRUE) break;
		}
		while ($DupCheck = $My->fetchArray());
	}

	// Then check database SCVL3 if no dup found in SCVL1
	if ($IsDup === FALSE)
	{
		$My3->query("select `MembNbr`, `HPhone`, `EmailAddr`, `OldCardNbr` from `tblmember` where `FName` = '" . $My->escape($Data['FName']) . "' and `LName` = '" . $My->escape($Data['LName']) . "' and `State` = '" . $My->escape($Data['State']) . "' and substr(`Zip`, 1, 5) = '" . $My->escape(substr($Data['Zip'], 0, 5)) . "'");
		if ($DupCheck = $My3->fetchArray())
		{
			do
			{
				if (substr($DupCheck['MembNbr'], 0, 1) == "6")
				{
					$IsDup = TRUE;
					if ($Data['EmailAddr'] && $DupCheck['EmailAddr'])
					{
						if ($Data['EmailAddr'] != $DupCheck['EmailAddr'])
						{
							$IsDup = FALSE;
						}
					}
					if ($Data['HPhone'] && $DupCheck['HPhone'])
					{
						if ($Data['HPhone'] != $DupCheck['HPhone'])
						{
							$IsDup = FALSE;
						}
					}
				}
				if ($IsDup === TRUE) break;
			}
			while ($DupCheck = $My3->fetchArray());
		}
	}

	// Show an error if a dup was found
	if ($IsDup === TRUE)
	{

[webbhelp]

Have you tried to echo it out directly on the page and see if you get any capitalized letters on the page?

Try that and tell

 

Just want to say: CSS got a function which captialize every first letter, just if that is an option...

[garbagedigger]

That is a pretty neat trick with text-transform in CSS but unfortunately it doesn't prevent from making any characters after the first character upper case.

 

So someone could still write: DsdfDFS with the characters after the first character in uppercase.    I only want the first character to be upper case and the following characters to remain lowercase.

 

BUT...I did find a fix on my own for this problem.  For some reason it works it when I add 'strtolower' which I realized I needed anyway to make the remaining characters lowercase.

 

 

Crazy!  Here is the new example:

 

$Data['FName'] = ucwords(strtolower($_POST['FirstName']));
$Data['LName'] = ucwords(strtolower($_POST['LastName']));
$Data['Address1'] = ucwords(strtolower($_POST['Address1']));
$Data['Address2'] = ucwords(strtolower($_POST['Address2']));

[DBookatay]

What would you do if the persons name was OBrien or McCarthy?