I want to normalize (so canonicalize) a string into the normal form for names:
- First letter of the name is uppercase
The difficulty by this is now to follow this rule with second and third name.
My method:
public function namilize($string)
{
$strings = explode(' ', $string);
foreach ($strings as $string) {
$string = ucfirst(strtolower($string));
}
$string = implode(' ', $strings);
return $string;
}
Somehow the
$string = ucfirst(strtolower($string));
fails.
What do I have to correct? Is there a better way?
Regards
EDIT:
Hi,
thank you all for all the comments and answers. I found another "modern" method:
public function namilize($string)
{
$string = mb_convert_case($string, MB_CASE_TITLE, mb_detect_encoding($string));
}
When I now would additionally add some regex for Mc and O's than it would be complete :)