I needed the first letter of every word in any given string to be capitalized. So I wrote a small little function to parse the string and create an array with all the words. I then loop through the array, break off the first letter, capitalize it and reattach it. We finally join the string with the other words and trim extra space at the end.

This function performs well and gets the job done.

function CapitalizeText($text){
$text = explode(" ", $text);
foreach($text as $t){
$CapText .= strtoupper($t{0}) . substr($t,1) . " ";
}
$CapText = trim($CapText);
return $CapText;
}

I started to think that someone else has to have done this (that never matters to me, I like writing my own stuff) and I searched to see if I was right. It turns out PHP (both 4 and 5) have this…built in.

All you need to type is ucwords($string) and it does the exact same thing as my function. Oh well, it is ALWAYS better to use built in functions. So goodbye, CapatilizeText(). Why didn't you tell me you are "moo like a cows opinion?"