translate each word in string to uppercase with exceptions

[adamjblakey]

Hi,

What i want to do is make the first letter of each word in a sting uppercase except "and" & "in"

How would i go about doing this?

Cheers,
Adam

[TheServant]

ucwords — Uppercase the first character of each word in a string

$new_phrase = ucwords ( $phrase );

Then you need to find all the and's and what ever else you don't want changed and changed them back:

$final_phrase = str_replace ( ' And ' , ' and ' , $new_phrase );

Haven't tried it, but you see my logic!

[Markus]

~Here's something i quickly threw together, it's lengthy, and i'm sure someone can do it better, but here's my shot at it:
[php]
$_string = "going to make this uppercase but miss and & in"; # string to capitalise.
$_string = explode(" ", $_string); # explode the string into an array
$_ignore = array("and", "in"); # ignore list
foreach($_string as $_key => $_val) # traverse the array
{
if(in_array($_val, $_ignore)) # this $_val is in the ignore list
{
$_string[$_key] = $_val; # so
}
else # this $_val isn't in the ignore list
{
$_string[$_key] = ucfirst($_val); # so, using the $_key of the array, insert into relevant key.
}
}

$_string = implode(" ", $_string); # Rebuild the string from remodeled array
echo $_string;
[/php]

Hope it helps.
Regards!

[ronverdonk]

Only problem is that, when the 'to be excluded word' is, in the text, followed by a reader sign like dot, comma, question or exclamation mark, etc, it is translated to upper case. SO it will need some adaptation to accomodate that.

Ronald

[Markus]

Only problem is that, when the 'to be excluded word' is, in the text, followed by a reader sign like dot, comma, question or exclamation mark, etc, it is translated to upper case. SO it will need some adaptation to accomodate that.

Ronald

Ahhhh, touche!

I shall have a look at what i can do to acomodate this challenge!

Need to eat and watch a film first :)

Regards.

[ronverdonk]

Challenge during eating and movie watching ;-)

Ronald

[TheServant]

Curious... What was wrong with my approach? I know it was simple, but I am here to learn!

[ronverdonk]

Curious... What was wrong with my approach? I know it was simple, but I am here to learn!

It appears to me that your solution works best, also regarding the special reading marks. You did very well!

Ronald

[adamjblakey]

Thanks for your replies everyone :)

[ronverdonk]

We are here to help: you even have two answers to choose from.
See you netx time.

Ronald

[Markus]

Curious... What was wrong with my approach? I know it was simple, but I am here to learn!

I hadn't even realised you posted before me!

Sorry.

[TheServant]

It appears to me that your solution works best, also regarding the special reading marks. You did very well!

Ronald

Thanks Ronald :D

I hadn't even realised you posted before me!

Sorry.

No problem ;)