How to Capitalize the first letter in a text field?

I have a text field of first_name and one of last_name. I want to make sure not matter what format the user inputs the the first letter is Capitalized and the rest is lower case. Can someone tell me how this is done? Thanks!

Rick4209 wrote:
I have a text field of first_name and one of last_name. I want to make sure not matter what format the user inputs the the first letter is Capitalized and the rest is lower case. Can someone tell me how this is done? Thanks!
It depends on what you want to do with the name. If this is for inserting the name in a database and you're using PHP, it's very simple:
$name = 'DaVID';
$formatted = ucfirst(strtolower($name));
echo $formatted; // outputs 'David'
This nests two functions: the inner function, strtolower(), converts everything to lowercase, and the outer function, ucfirst(), converts the first letter to uppercase.

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What do you mean there was "no effect?" I'm not aware of any effects.
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I have been trying to tidy up a massive database where visitors have been sloppy when entering text. The main thing I want to do is to Capitalize The First Letter In Every Word In Mysql.
I have found the code below in PHP but it keeps finding an error on the WHILE line:
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Once it had been established that the iWork rewrite had resulted in some features being lost and others broken, and once Apple had acknowledged the concerns* and suggested they are working on fixes**, I'm not sure what else there is to achieve.
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* Where have they acknowledged anything?
** They have barely anything listed, compared to the massive list of deleted features, and nothing but an extraordinarily long time frame considering they created the problems here and now. Apple has not said they will do anything at all about fixing the real issues, the biggest of which is that the new iWork apps break virtually all the work of existing users.

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Gavin Lawrie wrote:
Once it had been established that the iWork rewrite had resulted in some features being lost and others broken, and once Apple had acknowledged the concerns* and suggested they are working on fixes**, I'm not sure what else there is to achieve.
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* Where have they acknowledged anything?
** They have barely anything listed, compared to the massive list of deleted features, and nothing but an extraordinarily long time frame considering they created the problems here and now. Apple has not said they will do anything at all about fixing the real issues, the biggest of which is that the new iWork apps break virtually all the work of existing users.

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Is there a way in CF to capitalize the first letter of a
word?

cf_dev2 wrote:
> One way is using string functions. Left() to grab the
first letter and
> UCase() to capitalize it. You can use Right() and Len()
to grab the rest of
> the word.
>
> You can see an example of something similar at
cflib.org. But read the usage
> on how it operates if you pass multiple words.
>
http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=9
>
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AdamMarshall wrote:
Nice to see so many 'helpful' responses.
This casing is useful for example, on an Address field. It would be good if the OS had this option for developers.
I'm pretty sure it does as I've certainly had apps that, in certain fields, do use title case.

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