Comments on: Uppercase first word in a string or sentence

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 07 May 2010 04:01:49 +0000

Full proof? I think you mean foolproof, fool

By: Alex M

Alex M — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:01:56 +0000

Hi Brett,

The function does use PHP’s ucfirst(), but it does not work by itself.

Using our test string – “HELLO world. This is a test.”, if we just used ucfirst it would return “HELLO world. This is a test.” still, as the first word is all caps.

If we also used ucfirst(strtolower(“HELLO world. This is a test.”)) we would still have a problem. This would return “Hello world. this is a test.”

By: Brett

Brett — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:26:41 +0000

Could just use php’s inbuilt function..

http://php.net/manual/en/function.ucfirst.php

By: Chad

Chad — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:32:45 +0000

correct sorry

function uc_first_word ($string)
{
return strtoupper(substr($string,0,1)).strtolower(substr($string,1));
}

By: Alex M

Alex M — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:59:41 +0000

Hi Chad,

Your solution would not work in the test case “HELLO world”. Your function would still return “HELLO world”.

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:52:14 +0000

function uc_first_word ($string)
{
return strtoupper(substr($string,0,1)).substr($string,1)
}