Change to lowercase function

[tgavin]

I'm using these functions to capitalize words, but in a clever way. I didn't write this, but am hoping somebody could help me make a small modification.

 

If one of these words begins a sentence, or is after a double quote at the beginning of a sentence, the word still goes lowercase.

 

Example

Entering To The Market would return to the Market. Should be To the Market

Entering "To The Market" would return "to the Market". Should be "To the Market"

 

 

<?php
function lower_articles($str) {
return preg_replace("/(?<=(?<!:|’s)\W)(A|An|And|At|For|In|Of|On|Or|The|To|With|Vs)(?=\W)/e",'strtolower("$1")',$str);
}
function ucsmart($str) {
$str = preg_replace('/([^a-z\']|^)([a-z])/e', '"$1".strtoupper("$2")', strtolower($str));
return lower_articles($str);
}
?>

[Jeremysr]

Try this:

 

<?php
function lower_articles($str) {
return preg_replace("/(?<=(?<!:|’s)\W)(A|An|And|At|For|In|Of|On|Or|The|To|With|Vs)(?=\W)/e",'strtolower("$1")',$str);
}
function ucsmart($str) {
$str = preg_replace('/([^a-z\']|^)([a-z])/e', '"$1".strtoupper("$2")', strtolower($str));
if ($str[0] == '"' || $str[0] == "'") {
	$str[1] = strtoupper($str[1]);
} else {
	$str[0] = strtoupper($str[0]);
}
return lower_articles($str);
}
?>

 

This assumes that the string either begins with a letter (or number I guess) or begins with a double- or single-quote and then a letter.

[tgavin]

thank you.

still making the first letter after a " lowercase.

 

Perhaps I'm running this through the functions incorrectly?

$title = ucsmart(strip_tags(stripslashes($_POST['title'][$i])));