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

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.
ucwords() (or ucfirst() if I split them into firstname, lastname) only does Adam Smith-jones

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

What do you think about the following code ?
mb_convert_case(mb_strtolower($value, "UTF-8"), MB_CASE_TITLE, "UTF-8");
Please note that this also handles accented characters (usefull for some languages such as french).

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

Other way:
<?php
$str = 'adam smith-jones';
echo preg_replace("/(-)([a-z])/e","'\\1'.strtoupper('\\2')", ucwords($str));
?>

Answer 5

/**
* Uppercase words including after a hyphen
*
* #param string $text lower-case text
* #return string Upper-Case text
*/
function uc_hyphenated_words($text)
{
return str_replace("- ","-",ucwords(str_replace("-","- ",$text)));
}

Answer 6

<?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 7

You can us 'ucwords' to capitalize all words at once, and 'implode' and 'explode' together, like this:
ucwords(implode(" ", explode("_", "my_concatinated_word_string")));

Answer 8

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

Answer 9

Here is a simple function that can convert all the words in a string to title case:
function toTitleCase($string) {
return preg_replace_callback('/\w+/', function ($match) {
return ucfirst(strtolower($match[0]));
}, $string);
}