[SOLVED] Does PHP have a capitalization function?

[bobleny]

Is there a way to take a variable such as:

$j = "bob";

 

and turn it into

$j = "Bob";

 

Thanks!

[utexas_pjm]

http://us2.php.net/ucwords

[bobleny]

...

 

OK, how do I turn this:

$j = "bob will win!"

 

into:

$j = "Bob will win!"

 

or into this:

$j = "boB will Win!"

[jitesh]

ucfirst
(PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5)

ucfirst -- Make a string's first character uppercase
Description
string ucfirst ( string str )


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

Note that 'alphabetic' is determined by the current locale. For instance, in the default "C" locale characters such as umlaut-a (ä) will not be converted. Example 1. ucfirst() example

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

$bar = 'HELLO WORLD!';
$bar = ucfirst($bar);             // HELLO WORLD!
$bar = ucfirst(strtolower($bar)); // Hello world!
?>  
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ucwords
(PHP 3 >= 3.0.3, PHP 4, PHP 5)

ucwords --  Uppercase the first character of each word in a string 
Description
string ucwords ( string str )


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 a whitespace (These are: space, form-feed, newline, carriage return, horizontal tab, and vertical tab). 

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!
?>  

[bobleny]

jitesh, yeah, I read that too!

 

No big deal. I really only need ucfirst().