Something like this, perhaps (untested):
function smart_ucwords($String)
{
$ExceptionList = array('the', 'an', 'a'); # should all be in lowercase
$String = ucwords(strtolower(ltrim($String))); # LINE A
foreach ($ExceptionList as $Word)
{
$String = eregi_replace("[[:space:]]+$Word[[:space:]]+",
$Word, $String);
}
return $String; # LINE B
}
This will leave the exception word capitalized if it is the first
word in the $String (as it should be), or if it is the last work in
the $String (unlikely). If you want to handle cases where the
exception word comes at the end of the string, just replace LINE A
above with
$String = ucwords(strtolower($String)).' ';
and LINE B with
return rtrim($String);
Of course, there will be exceptions that are near-impossible to
programmatically determine, eg;
'Dr. Martin van Hooten Hears a Who'
in this case, van should be lower case, since it isn't referring to a
medium-capacity box-like automobile, tennis shoe brand, or naval
vanguard.
-steve
At 11:07 AM -0500 8/13/01, Boget, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is there a prewritten function for capitalizing the first
>> letter of each word in a string except for the common
>> words you wouldn't want to capitalize in a title? Like
>> Come Learn the Facts From an Industry Leader
>
>None that I've seen.
>But it wouldn't be hard to write a function that takes a
>string, passes that string to ucwords() and then you can
>run through a pre-defined array and just do an ereg_replace()
>on those words you want to remain lowercase...
>
>Or something like that...
>
>Chris
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