Capitalize first letter of each word in a string

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Capitalize first letter of each word in a string

phpshift

8:35 pm on Apr 19, 2007 (gmt 0)

I wrote a simple function called "ucallfirst()" in order to capitalize the first letter of each word in a string. Anyway, here it is:

function ucallfirst($string)
{
$string=explode(" ",$string);
$i=0;
 while($i<count($string))
 {$string[$i]=ucfirst($string[$i]);
 $i++;}
return implode(" ",$string);
}

And it's as simple as that. :)

mooger35

9:03 pm on Apr 19, 2007 (gmt 0)

doesn't ucwords [ca3.php.net] do that?

phpshift

2:17 am on Apr 20, 2007 (gmt 0)

Not in versions earlier than 4.0. Odds are almost infinitely slim you'll have that problem though. I just wrote it because I saw an old post earlier asking about this and there was no solution to that. I suppose the makers of PHP got to it. :D

eelixduppy

2:22 am on Apr 20, 2007 (gmt 0)

There are a couple other alternate solutions posted at the ucwords documentation in the user-contributed notes. Mostly for languages other than english, though.

Thanks for your solution, phpshift, and Welcome to WebmasterWorld! :)

coopster

6:53 pm on Apr 20, 2007 (gmt 0)

You could use CSS to do it too.
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