MySQL edit values - php

Question

Ok, here's an easy one:
I have a table in MySQL where I keep some country names (inserted by the user). The "problem" is that some of the users inserted the country name having no first capital letter.
A need a script (query+PHP) that selects all the values from 1 column inside the table, and apply a PHP script that makes the first letter of every word a capital letter, and the rest in small letter.
Example:
Before edit:
Name oNe
cOUNTRY
VaLue
value
After edit:
Name One
Country
Value
Value
I want to know two things:
->easiest way to edit a value inside a mySQL table
->easiest PHP way to capitalize the first letter of every word (space separated) inside a script
Thanks!

Answer 1

You can use this function:
DELIMITER $$
DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS `ICap`$$
CREATE FUNCTION `ICap`(mystring varchar(1000))
RETURNS VARCHAR(1000)
BEGIN
DECLARE i INT DEFAULT 1;
DECLARE myc, pc CHAR(1);
DECLARE myoutstring VARCHAR(1000) DEFAULT LOWER(mystring);
WHILE i <= CHAR_LENGTH(mystring) DO
SET myc = SUBSTRING(mystring, i, 1);
SET pc = CASE WHEN i = 1 THEN ' ' ELSE SUBSTRING(mystring, i - 1, 1) END;
IF pc IN (' ', '&', '''', '_', '?', ';', ':', '!', ',', '-', '/', '(', '.') THEN
SET myoutstring = INSERT(myoutstring, i, 1, UPPER(myc));
END IF;
SET i = i + 1;
END WHILE;
RETURN myoutstring;
END$$
DELIMITER ;
After that, you can retrieve results like this:
SELECT
ICap(name)
FROM
MyTable
or just update all the rows:
UPDATE
MyTable
SET
name = ICap(name)

Answer 2

To fix the database with only one sql statement use this:
UPDATE country_table SET country_name = CONCAT(UCASE(MID(country_name,1,1)),MID(LOWER(country_name),2));
This will uppercase the first letter of each country name and lowercase the rest. All without needing any PHP at all.

Answer 3

->The easiest way to edit a value inside a mySQL table
UPDATE TABLE SET COL="NEW VALUE" where COL="OLD VALUE";
Be careful, it will replace all line wher COL is equal to OLd VALUE
->easiest PHP way to capitalize the first letter of every word (space separated) inside a script
There's a function for that : http://php.net/manual/en/function.ucwords.php

Answer 4

To Edit the values in in the database just run a Update Query (I don't know how your table is designed) from php -- http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_intro.asp.
To Capitalize the first character of every word you can use ucwords.

Answer 5

You can do it all in mysql if you want:
SELECT CONCAT(UPPER(SUBSTRING(CountryName, 1, 1)), LOWER(SUBSTRING(CountryName FROM 2))) from countries AS properCountryname;
The resultset returned would be your CountryName field with uppercased first letter.
You coud even do the update in one sql query, if you wanted.
If you really want php to do the job, something like this:
<?php
set_time_limit(0);
$cnt=0;
$con=mysql_connect('localhost','root','');
mysql_select_db('fakeDB',$con);
$query="SELECT `name`,id FROM countries";
$result=mysql_query($query);
while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
$name= $row["name"];
$key = $row["id"];
$field = strtolower($name);
$array=explode(" ",$name);
for ($i=0;$i<count($array);$i++)
{
$array[$i] = ucfirst($array[$i]);
}
$field = implode(" ",$array);
$query2 = "UPDATE countries SET `name`='$name' where id=$key";
mysql_query($query2);
$cnt++;
}
echo $cnt." Records updated";
?>
Just a quick untested thingie but it should give you an idea.