How to uppercase first letter after a hyphen, ie Adam Smith-Jones

Question

I\'m looking for a way to uppercase the first letter/s of a string, including where the names are joined by a hyphen, such as adam smith-jones needs to be Adam Smith-Jones.

Answer 1

Other way:

<?php

$str = 'adam smith-jones';

echo preg_replace("/(-)([a-z])/e","'\\1'.strtoupper('\\2')", ucwords($str));

?>

Answer 2

$string = implode('-', array_map('ucfirst', explode('-', $string)));

Answer 3

Is this ok ?

    function to_upper($name)
    {
        $name=ucwords($name);
        $arr=explode('-', $name);
        $name=array();
        foreach($arr as $v)
        {
            $name[]=ucfirst($v);
        }
        $name=implode('-', $name);
        return $name;
    }
    echo to_upper("adam smith-jones");

Answer 4

<?php
     // note - this does NOT do what you want - but I think does what you said
     // perhaps you can modify it to do what you want - or we can help if you can
     // provide a bit more about the data you need to update
    $string_of_text = "We would like to welcome Adam Smith-jones to our 3rd, 'I am addicted to stackoverflow-posting' event.";
     // both Smith-Jones and Stackoverflow-Posting should result
     // may be wrong
    $words = explode(' ',$string_of_text);

    foreach($words as $index=>$word) {
       if(false !== strpos('-',$word)) {
          $parts = explode('-',$word);
          $newWords = array;
          foreach($parts as $wordIndex=>$part) {
            $newWords[] = ucwords($part);
          }
          $words[$index] = implode('-',$newWords);
       }
    }

    $words = implode(' ',$words);

?>

Something akin to this - untested - for the purposes of making sure I understand the question.

Answer 5

function capWords($string) {
    $string = str_replace("-", " - ", $string);
    $string = ucwords(strtolower($string));
    $string = str_replace(" - ", "-", $string);

    return $string;
}

Answer 6

What do you think about the following code ?

mb_convert_case(mb_strtolower($value), MB_CASE_TITLE, "UTF-8");

Please note that this also handles accented characters (usefull for some languages such as french).