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function convert2proper($strVal){
$iPos = 0;
$strValTmp = "";
do {
$iSpace = strpos($strVal," ", $iPos);
$strValTmp .= strtoupper(substr($strVal, $iPos, 1));
$strValTmp .= strtolower(substr($strVal, $iPos + 1, $iSpace - $iPos));
$iPos = $iSpace + 1;
} while(strpos($strVal," ", $iPos) != FALSE);
$strValTmp .= strtoupper(substr($strVal, $iPos, 1));
$strValTmp .= strtolower(substr($strVal, $iPos + 1));
return $strValTmp;
}
function cutString($strVal,$limit){
if(strlen($strVal)>$limit){
return substr($strVal,0,$limit) . "...";
}else{
return $strVal;
}
}
These are 2 functions that are very useful in search engines and filling select boxes where you don't want the select box to be wider than a certain character length. the first one converts strings to proper case, with the beginning of every word in caps. the second will cut text at a certain length and will put "..." at the end.
Use is pretty self explanitory.
convert2proper("HI HOW ARE YOU?") returns "Hi How Are You?"
cutString("superkallafragalistic",10) returns "superkalla..."
Or both, which is what I use:
cutString(convert2proper("HI HOW ARE YOU?"),10) which returns "Hi How Are..." | |
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See Voting Log | | | | Other User Comments | 8/28/2002 3:24:50 PM:Charles Chadwick
If you are using PHP 4, you can say
$stringToConv =
ucwords(strtolower($origString)); to
convert to proper case.
| 8/18/2003 6:58:06 PM:chris
I can't get the convert2proper to work
correctly when I only want one word
converted, it returns the first two
characters capitalized.
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