13 replies to this topic

[Mr. Jay]

Trying to make get the text to Upercase after typing (! . ?)

Example:

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hello!!! how are you doing?
to
Hello!!! How are you doing?

I tried ucfirst but it only returns as

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Hello!!! how are you doing?

[bay]

Ok, this isn't the most conventional method probably, but its 2:42 AM and I want to go to bed.

What you can do is explode the string into an array and check each character to be a ? or ! and then rebuild the string with the letter that follows uppercased.

Or, you can use string offset and compare each character, which is essentially the same thing..idk, maybe some regex could do the trick, my brain is fried right now zzz

[cigraphics]

try with css

<style>
.up {
text-transform:capitalize;
}
</style>

<span class="up">hello world</span>

[bay]

Heh, this is a neat way to do it, explode the string based on your punctuation, and then you can use ucwords to capitalize each part, and then you can implode it, or rebuild the string with loops Kinda creative, do what you want, there's multiple ways.

[Mr. Jay]

Still need help

[bay]

I listed 2 methods that you could achieve your result, did you even attempt them?

Post what you have done so far that its easier for us to help, and for you to learn, otherwise you aren't learning at all.

[Mr. Jay]

bay, on Jan 22 2007, 11:40 PM, said:

I listed 2 methods that you could achieve your result, did you even attempt them?

Post what you have done so far that its easier for us to help, and for you to learn, otherwise you aren't learning at all.

I know how to do loops & ucwords, but not implode/explode. Thats why I came to the help section, since I dont know how..

[dEcade]

I don't know if these will help you at all.

Explode - http://ca3.php.net/m...ion.explode.php

Implode - http://ca3.php.net/m...ion.implode.php

dEcade

[Hayden]

cigraphics, on Jan 22 2007, 06:57 AM, said:

try with css

<style>
.up {
text-transform:capitalize;
}
</style>

<span class="up">hello world</span>

i like this way.


don't actually do it except by CSS looks.

[Mr. Jay]

Tell me what I did wrong

<?php
$before = 'hello! how are you doing? lolz!';
$punct = array("!", ".", "?");
$array = ucfirst(explode($punct, $before, -1));
$after = implode(",", $array);
echo $after;
?>

Still need help

[rc69]

explode() ruturns an array and accepts only strings for paramaters (not arrays). ucfirst() accepts only a string as a paramater, not an array.

<?php
$before = 'hello! how are you doing? lolz!';
$array = explode('!', $before);
while(list($key,$string) = each($array)){
	$new_array[] = explode('.', $string);
}

$array = array();
while(list($key,$ar) = each($new_array)){
	while(list($k,$string) = each($ar)){
		$array[] = explode('?', $string);
	}
}

$after = implode(",", $array);
echo $after;
?>

I wish i could think of a more recursive way to do that, but none come to mind. Since i haven't tested it, i say good luck and let us know how it turns out.

[Mr. Jay]

Returns up like this

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Array,Array,Array

[rc69]

You don't do much php work do you?

while(list($key,$ar) = each($array)){
	$array2[] = implode(',', $array);
}

$after = implode(",", $array2);

Try that.

[bay]

<?php

function formatSentence ( $str )
{
	preg_match_all ( '/.*?(\.|\?|!)/', $str, $abc ); // you may need to edit this if you have any other punctuation you want to check for

	foreach ( $abc[0] as $a )
	{
		$rebuilt .= strlen ( $a ) == 1 ? '' : ' ';
		$rebuilt .= ucfirst ( trim ( $a ) );
	}
	
	$rebuilt = substr ( $rebuilt, 1 );
	return $rebuilt;
}

$str = 'hi. my Name is bay!! this is not capitalized!?! BUT THIS IS. woW!';
echo formatSentence ( $str );

?>

That's something i whipped up real quick because I had a minute after school. Might not be the most conventional/efficient, but it works.