Name-case validation

[Azuleon]

Hi all,

To validate a name input field, I would like to prevent people from entering silly things like 'KEVIN' or 'kEvIn', etc... Let's stick to "normal" stuff like 'Kevin'... No problem here... Until we get people like 'McEwen', who find their names transformed into 'Mcewen'... I started throwing some code at these "exceptions", but meanwhile I started wondering whether I'm just re-inventing the wheel... Does any one know of (have handy!) a few lines of code to handle standard KEVIN->Kevin changes, while preserving things like McDonald, O'Connor, Aye-Mu, etc?

Many thanks.

[spinmaster]

I would rather validate for alphanumeric characters, string-length, etc. I find it a bit silly to validate if the user entered his name as "Kevin" or "kevin" ...

[Azuleon]

If the user's name is to end up in a first-quality document and the production process is highly automated, it would look sooooooo much nicer if the name appeared as 'Kevin McBride' and not as 'KEVIN mcbride'... But, hey, that's just my aesthetic opinion...

Where in Namibia, btw - I lived in Tsumeb and Windhoek for a while!

[frezno]

you can take a look at ucfirst()

[Azuleon]

frezno,
thanks - I have already done that - it solves the KEVIN->Kevin cases, but not the exceptions that I mentioned above... thanks for the pointer, though.

[frezno]

Yes, you're right.
For names as O'Connor or Aye-Mu, regex might help, but for thos Mc's and Mac's etc there might be some problems.
ok, as those are probabely the most common, you can check whether there's an Mc or Mac prefix of the name and then act according to what you want to achieve.

it might get even more complicated if you have names which are made up of multiple words as often seen in the Netherlands, eg Piet van den Flochten

[spinmaster]

If the user's name is to end up in a first-quality document and the production process is highly automated, it would look sooooooo much nicer if the name appeared as 'Kevin McBride' and not as 'KEVIN mcbride'...

OK, in this case it might be different...

Where in Namibia, btw - I lived in Tsumeb and Windhoek for a while!

cool stuff, I'm in Windhoek (Olympia)