capitalize

[jazztie]

maybe a very easy question...

How do I change the first letter of a word into a Capital letter using PHP?

Say the variable is filled with 'dog', how do I change it to 'Dog'?

And another question:

How do I limit the number of characters in a variable?

Say the variable is 'The Institutionalization of Third World Countries' and I want to limit the maximum number of character in the variable to 28.
How do I limit the variable and end it with '...'

In my example:
'The Institutionalization of...'

Any help would be appreciated!

Jazz

[jogler]

First question, use the function ucfirst() like:
$text = ucfirst($text);
if the entire string is uppercase, nothing will happen, you may want to use:
$text = ucfirst(strtolower($text));

Second question, I don't know of any way to limit the number of characters that can be put into a variable, but once they are in you could use something like:
$text = substr($text,0,26);

HTH

Kevin

[ellipsis9000]

$text = substr($text,0,26);

to append your '...' merele make this

$text = substr($text,0,26).'...'; 

aaron

[jazztie]

Thanx Aaron and Kevin!

That helped a lot

Jazz