Correct capitalization: McDonald III etc.

[Borderline]

I'm trying to produce a result whereby horse & jockeys names are capitalized correctly. My current results are located here: http://www.further-f...t/testupper.php McNaughton & Billie-Jo are showing correctly, but McDonald and O'Connor aren't. Additionally, I'd like to attempt to have Ii displayed as II. My code is below - could it be tweaked to correct these issues, or is there a better way of achieving all this anyway? Any info gratefully received.

<?PHP	function FormatName($name=NULL) {	  		if (empty($name))			return false;		$name = strtolower($name);		$names_array = explode('-',$name);		for ($i = 0; $i < count($names_array); $i++) {		  			if (strncmp($names_array[$i],'mc',2) == 0 || ereg('^[oO]\'[a-zA-Z]',$names_array[$i])) {			$names_array[$i][2] = strtoupper($names_array[$i][2]);  			}		  			$names_array[$i] = ucfirst($names_array[$i]);		  		}		$name = implode('-',$names_array);		return ucwords($name);	  	}    // Get all the data from the table	$result = mysql_query("SELECT horse, jockey FROM testnames") or die(mysql_error());	echo "<table class='correctenglish' border='1' cellpadding='4' cellspacing='0' width='50%'>";	echo "<tr class='toprow'><th>Horse</th> <th>Jockey</th></tr>";  	// keeps getting the next row until there are no more to get  	while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {  	// Print out the contents of each row into a table	  echo  "<tr>";	  echo  "<td align='center'>";	  echo  FormatName($row['horse']);	  echo  "</td>";	  echo  "<td align='center'>";	  echo  FormatName($row['jockey']);	  echo  "</td>";		  echo  "</tr>";	  }	  echo  "</table>";?>

[justsomeguy]

Here's what I use for that:

function uc_names($s){  return preg_replace_callback("/(\b[\w|']+\B)/s", 'fixcase_callback', $s);}function fixcase_callback($word){  $word = $word[1];  $word = strtolower($word);  if($word == "de")	return $word;  $word = ucfirst($word);  if(substr($word,1,1) == "'")  {	if(substr($word,0,1) == "D")	{	  $word = strtolower($word);	}	$next = substr($word,2,1);	$next = strtoupper($next);	$word = substr_replace($word, $next, 2, 1);  }  return $word;}

http://www.php.net/m...ce-callback.php

[Borderline]

Many thanks for the speedy reply (as always). I'm not getting the right output, and was wondering whether you could advise how to dealt with the echoing part of the code? I've not previously dealt with a pair of functions.

[Ingolme]

You use the function like this:

echo uc_names("Name goes here");

[Borderline]

Thanks for the reply. Doing that gets me a strange result: http://www.further-flight.co.uk/site/test/justsomeguy.php

function uc_names($s){  return preg_replace_callback("/(\b[\w|']+\B)/s", 'fixcase_callback', $s);  //return $s;}function fixcase_callback($word){  $word = $word ;  $word = strtolower($word);  if($word == "de")    return $word;  $word = ucfirst($word);  if(substr($word,1,1) == "'")  {    if(substr($word,0,1) == "D")    {   $word = strtolower($word);    }    $next = substr($word,2,1);    $next = strtoupper($next);    $word = substr_replace($word, $next, 2, 1);  }  return $word;}   // Get all the data from the table    $result = mysql_query("SELECT horse, jockey FROM testnames") or die(mysql_error());     echo "<table class='correctenglish' border='1' cellpadding='4' cellspacing='0' width='50%'>";    echo "<tr class='toprow'><th>Horse</th> <th>Jockey</th></tr>";       // keeps getting the next row until there are no more to get       while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {       // Print out the contents of each row into a table	  echo  "<tr>";	  echo  "<td align='center'>";	  echo  uc_names($row['horse']);	  echo  "</td>";	  echo  "<td align='center'>";	  echo  uc_names($row['jockey']);	  echo  "</td>";	 	  echo  "</tr>";	  }	  echo  "</table>";

[justsomeguy]

The first line of the callback function should be: $word = $word[1];