I recently wanted a contact form to convert a form element, in this case someones name to uppercase. For example ‘tom peters’ decided to enter his name without any capitals. The desired result would ideally be ‘Tom Peters’.
Using PHP we can convert the form field variable by doing the following:
$personsname= "tom peters";
$PersonsName = ucwords($personsname);
echo "<p>The old string - $personsname <br />";
echo "The new string - $PersonsName </p>";
There are a few more examples that you could experiment with for example:
strtolower(); will convert a string to lowercase.
strtoupper(); will convert a string to uppercase.
Tags: PHP, string manipulation, strtoupper, ucwords
