Hi, I need help with changing the 1st letter of names and such from lowercase to uppercase.

I am familiar with the "ucase" function, I just need a way to do something like this:

PHP Code:

ucase(firstletter($_POST('first_name'))) 


thanks

Hi carterdea,

What you're after is:

PHP Code:

ucfirst(strtolower($_POST['first_name'])); 


Just added alterations, as you'd probably want the rest to remain lower-case.

Cheers,

MC

Originally Posted by carterdea

Hi, I need help with changing the 1st letter of names and such from lowercase to uppercase.

I am familiar with the "ucase" function, I just need a way to do something like this:

PHP Code:

ucase(firstletter($_POST('first_name'))) 


thanks

The code you are seeking is

PHP Code:

ucfirst($_POST['first_name']); 


but remember you need to clear your code for javascript and other harmfull code first, also if you are inserting the information into the database then you will need to addslashes.

here is the function I use to format data

PHP Code:

    function encodedata($data, $case = 0, $html = 0){
        ## function to encode data into the database
        $search = array('@<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>@si', '@<style[^>]*?>.*?</style>@siU', '@<![\s\S]*?--[ \t\n\r]*>@');
        $data = preg_replace($search, '', $data);
        if ($html == 0)$data = strip_tags($data);
        if ($case !== 0)$data = strtolower($data);
        $data = addslashes($data);
        $data = htmlentities($data, ENT_QUOTES);
        return $data;
    } 


Hope that helps

thanks both of you guys.

Originally Posted by neomaximus2h

but remember you need to clear your code for javascript and other harmfull code first, also if you are inserting the information into the database then you will need to addslashes.

here is the function I use to format data

PHP Code:

    function encodedata($data, $case = 0, $html = 0){
        ## function to encode data into the database
        $search = array('@<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>@si', '@<style[^>]*?>.*?</style>@siU', '@<![\s\S]*?--[ \t\n\r]*>@');
        $data = preg_replace($search, '', $data);
        if ($html == 0)$data = strip_tags($data);
        if ($case !== 0)$data = strtolower($data);
        $data = addslashes($data);
        $data = htmlentities($data, ENT_QUOTES);
        return $data;
    } 


Hope that helps

That 1st part certainly helps, but I'm sorry, why do I need to clear it of javascript and harmful code?

Well, basically what neo is trying to say is that if you don't validate your POSTed information, it could contain malicious code that you may not check for and remove.

It's a security thing that you should be conscious about. Just know that anything from a form, including your own information should be treated as untrusted, so make sure you just validate the content of your posted information and eliminate any risks.

Cheers,

MC

great thanks. I will certainly add that to my code. Thank you greatly