Is there a variation of ucfirst () which will convert to sentince form - ie Capitalises after every full stop (.) but leaves already existing words capitalised?

 

so

 

hi I am enjoying the Webdesigners forum. it's really cool.

 

would change to:

 

Hi I am enjoying the Webdesigners forum. It's really cool.

Is there a variation of ucfirst () which will convert to sentince form - ie Capitalises after every full stop (.) but leaves already existing words capitalised?

 

so

 

hi I am enjoying the Webdesigners forum. it's really cool.

 

would change to:

 

Hi I am enjoying the Webdesigners forum. It's really cool.

 

You would need to use explode() with full stops. I've had a quick look on the PHP site and found this posting...

 

<?php

$text="this is a sentence. this is another sentence.";

$split=explode(". ", $text);
foreach ($split as $sentence) {
$sentencegood=ucfirst($sentence);
$text=str_replace($sentence, $sentencegood, $text);
}

echo $text; // This is a sentence. This is another sentence.

?>

 

Not tested it, but looks like it should work.

 

Good luck!

Nice one Paul .. I took a shot at the code too ... here's my solution (with comments too):

 

//you should explode the dot only with no spaces
//you could also transform the text to lowercase (just in case you have "tHiS is a seTence.this is another.")

$split = explode(".", strtolower($text)); 
foreach ($split as $sentence) 
{
//here I'm building an array with sentences, uppercasing the first letter and removing unnecessary left/right spaces
$sentence2[] = ucfirst(trim($sentence));
}
//you can implode the array with the dot+space and also remove the last space
$text = rtrim(implode(". ",$sentence2));

echo $text; //This is a sentence. This is another sentence.

 

PHP is fun

Fantastic!

 

I'll see how it goes.