Unfortunately, this approach doesn't handle names like McDonald...

This is why a lot of databases just store everything in uppercase.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org 
> [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org] On Behalf Of Darrell King
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 7:26 AM
> To: HWG Techniques
> Subject: Re: Formatting form information before submission
> 
> 
> If you can identify each field seperately , you could handle 
> case simply
> enough.  Fior instance, if the "name" variable is called $name:
> 
> $name=ucwords($strtolower($name));
> 
> The inner function lowercases all the letters in the 
> variable, then the
> outer function, ucwords(), makes the first letter of each 
> word uppercase.
> 
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ucwords.php

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----- Original Message -----
From: Missy Scott

Hi all,

The problem:  When people go to submit the forms, they don't always use
proper capitalization.  A lot of them are OK, but there are some that
look
like:
JoHn Q. PuBliC
123 AnYwHeRe St
AnYWhEre, USA

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