Comments on: Title Case in PHP

By: amber.long83

amber.long83 — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:34:53 +0000

nice function. thanks

By: JimS

JimS — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:29:42 +0000

My god… what a bunch of whiners (for the most part). And a lot of non-programmers who want to complain about improper grammar. It’s a tool. Use it. Don’t use it. Modify as needed.

And ddzoom…
If you modify ALLCAP titles then the previous example where “A Title About HTML Classes” would obviously damage HTML if it was inputed properly the first time around.

Jim

By: Edan

Edan — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:08:32 +0000

Thanks for the code.
Even if it doesn’t provide me a complete grammar resource -
I found it very useful.

Anyway, for the last word problem, I added this line -

$words[array_pop(array_keys($words))] = ucwords($word);

By: ddzoom

ddzoom — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:01:23 +0000

function titlecase($s) {
 $GLOBALS['lc'] = array('a', 'an', 'and', 'as', 'at', 'but', 'by', 'de', 'down', 'for', 'from', 'has', 'in', 'into', 'near', 'nor', 'of', 'off', 'onto', 'or', 'out', 'over', 'per', 'so', 'than', 'the', 'to', 'unto', 'upon', 'van', 'via', 'von', 'with', 'yet'); // , 'up'
 // $GLOBALS['lc'] = array('a', 'an', 'and', 'as', 'but', 'de', 'nor', 'of', 'or', 'per', 'the', 'van', 'via', 'von'); // minimal
 $s = flatten_whitespace($s);
 if (strtoupper($s) == $s) $s = ucwords($s); // disallow ALL CAPS TITLES (shouting)
 $s = preg_replace("/\b(['\w]+?)(?!['\w])/e", 'in_array(strtolower("\1"), $GLOBALS["lc"]) ? strtolower("\1") : (strtoupper("\1") == "\1" ? "\1" : ucfirst(strtolower("\1")));',
 $s); // words in list to lower, else Capitalize unless ALL-CAPS
 $s = preg_replace("/^(\W+)?(['\w]+?)(?!['\w])/e", '"\1" . (strtoupper("\2") == "\2" ? "\2" : ucfirst("\2"))',
 $s); // Capitalize first word
 $s = preg_replace("/(?

mmmmmm....

By: ddzoom

ddzoom — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:58:42 +0000

part 2...

 // Capitalize last word
 $s = preg_replace("/(?

By: ddzoom

ddzoom — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:55:34 +0000

try again...

function titlecase($s) {
 $GLOBALS['lc'] = array('a', 'an', 'and', 'as', 'but', 'de', 'nor', 'of', 'or', 'per', 'the', 'van', 'via', 'von'); // minimal
 $s = flatten_whitespace($s);

 // disallow ALL CAPS TITLES (shouting)
 if (strtoupper($s) == $s) $s = ucwords($s);

 // words in list to lower, else Capitalize unless ALL-CAPS
 $s = preg_replace("/\b(['\w]+?)(?!['\w])/e", 'in_array(strtolower("\1"), $GLOBALS["lc"]) ? strtolower("\1") : (strtoupper("\1") == "\1" ? "\1" : ucfirst(strtolower("\1")));',
 $s);

 // Capitalize first word
 $s = preg_replace("/^(\W+)?(['\w]+?)(?!['\w])/e", '"\1" . (strtoupper("\2") == "\2" ? "\2" : ucfirst("\2"))',
 $s);

 // Capitalize last word
 $s = preg_replace("/(?

By: ddzoom

ddzoom — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:53:32 +0000

I spent an afternoon playing with this, and I'm sorry but your approach seems to be way too simplistic. The following code gets a little closer, splitting words at (non-apostophe) boundaries...

function flatten_whitespace($s) { return preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $s); } // util

function titlecase($s) {
 $GLOBALS['lc'] = array('a', 'an', 'and', 'as', 'at', 'but', 'by', 'de', 'down', 'for', 'from', 'has', 'in', 'into', 'near', 'nor', 'of', 'off', 'onto', 'or', 'out', 'over', 'per', 'so', 'than', 'the', 'to', 'unto', 'upon', 'van', 'via', 'von', 'with', 'yet'); // , 'up'
 // $GLOBALS['lc'] = array('a', 'an', 'and', 'as', 'but', 'de', 'nor', 'of', 'or', 'per', 'the', 'van', 'via', 'von'); // minimal
 $s = flatten_whitespace($s);

 // disallow ALL CAPS TITLES (shouting)
 if (strtoupper($s) == $s) $s = ucwords($s);

 // words in list to lower, else Capitalize unless ALLCAPS
 $s = preg_replace("/\b(['\w]+?)(?!['\w])/e", 'in_array(strtolower("\1"), $GLOBALS["lc"]) ? strtolower("\1") : (strtoupper("\1") == "\1" ? "\1" : ucfirst(strtolower("\1")));',
 $s);

 // Capitalize first word
 $s = preg_replace("/^(\W+)?(['\w]+?)(?!['\w])/e", '"\1" . (strtoupper("\2") == "\2" ? "\2" : ucfirst("\2"))',
 $s);

 // Capitalize last word
 $s = preg_replace("/(?

By: Gian Luca

Gian Luca — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:06:59 +0000

What about hyphenated words like: “A client-centered approach”

Aren’t you supposed to capitalize each portion of the hyphenated word?

By: codegreen

codegreen — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:42:04 +0000

Awesome… thanks guys for several good solutions.

By: Nood

Nood — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:10:22 +0000

Why such a long function just to do this!

function titleCase ($str) {
return ucwords(strtolower($str));
}