Re: Capitalizing the first letter

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Hello Again,
        You can use ucwords() functions except my method. This function 
returns a string with the first character of each word in str capitalized, 
if that character is alphabetic. :)

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Haydar TUNA
Republic Of Turkey - Ministry of National Education
Education Technology Department Ankara / TURKEY
Web: http://www.haydartuna.net

> Hello,
>    In PHP ucfirst() function make a string's first character uppercase. 
> But ralph smith have two words respectivetely ralph and smith. For this 
> reason, if you call the ucfirst("ralph smith") function, you cannot see 
> the Ralph Smith. You see the Ralph smith. If you want to see Ralph Smith 
> string, you should use explode() function. With this functions, you 
> returns an array of strings, each of which is a substring of string formed 
> by splitting it on boundaries formed by the string delimiter.In the ralph 
> smith delimeter characeter is blank line. You can use like a following 
> examples in your code:)
>
> <?php
>    $yourname = "ralph smith";
>
>    $name = explode (" ", $yourname);
>
>    $yournewname = ucfirst( $name[0] ) . " " . ucfirst ( $name[1] );
>
>    echo ( $yournewname );
> ?>
>
> -- 
> Haydar TUNA
> Republic Of Turkey - Ministry of National Education
> Education Technology Department Ankara / TURKEY
> Web: http://www.haydartuna.net
>
> "Todd Cary" <todd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
> news:B5.10.34414.CB0B6F54@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>I would like to write a filter that takes the text "smith" or "SMith" and 
>>returns "Smith"; same for "ralph smith".  Is the a good source on using 
>>filters this way?
>>
>> Thank you... 

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