Resolved How to make special characters Capital ?

[Jesper Møller]

Im making a small form wher peapol type ther name, surname, address and so on. And i woud like the names to always end op with capital first letter so i didt this

PHP Code:

$firstname = ucwords(trim($_POST['firstname'])); 


And it works well except for æøåäëö and others special characters

How can i make shure that those kind of letters gets captial ?

[Dormilich]

mb_convert_case() should do that, but I couldn’t get it to run successfully, tho.

[masterofollies]

That tag is for PHP 4.3.0 to PHP 5. So if you have less than 4.3.0 it won't be valid.

[Dormilich]

Originally Posted by masterofollies

So if you have less than 4.3.0 it won't be valid.

poor fellow, if he still has to work with PHP 4.

[Jesper Møller]

Ill look in to that mb_convert_case()

(i got php5 )

[Jesper Møller]

Well it looks like i can use that some places but not all

for some inputs (eg. in textarea) its only the first letter in the text i want to capitalise

Cant se anny code for that
( ucfirst() dont work on special charactes either )

[Jesper Møller]

Ok ... this looks more dificult than i was thinking

it works well when used on a singel word or lines wher all words shal be capitalised

but if only the first word in sentens it gets dificult

for a text area i tryde this

PHP Code:

$infotext = ucfirst(trim($_POST["infotext"])); 


works well except for special letters like æøå

so i tryde this

PHP Code:

$infotext = trim($_POST["infotext"]);
$infotext = substr($infotext,0,1);
$infotext = mb_convert_case($infotext, MB_CASE_TITLE, "utf-8"); 


well it will capitalise the first letter .. but æøå simply disapers (and so dos the rest of the text, but that can be solvd with some extra code)

æø and å (and other special characters) is actualy 2letters/sign, so by looking at the 2 first insted of the first it actualy works

PHP Code:

$infotext = substr($infotext,0,2); 


so i end up with this:

PHP Code:

$infotext = trim($_POST["infotext"]);
$infotext = mb_convert_case(substr($infotext,0,2), MB_CASE_TITLE, "utf-8").substr($infotext,2); 


Testet with letters like æøåöäé

maby others can benifit of my strukel

(now ill try to se if i can get the 2 lines combind)

[Jesper Møller]

Combining those to lines was easyer than expected

PHP Code:

$infotext = mb_convert_case(substr((trim($_POST["infotext"])),0,2), MB_CASE_TITLE, "utf-8").substr($_POST["infotext"],2); 


or if both start and end of line shud be trimd:

PHP Code:

$infotext = mb_convert_case(substr((trim($_POST["infotext"])),0,2), MB_CASE_TITLE, "utf-8").substr((trim($_POST["infotext"])),2);