How to use ucwords on form variables ?

[eluser]dhaulagiri[/eluser]
Hi friends, I have a field name "first_name" in my form. When posted to database I want it to be capitalize, please help me how do i do that ?

This is a html form

Code:

<input type="text" style="text-transform: capitalize;" name="last_name" id="last_name" class="input-text" value="<?php echo ucwords($_POST['last_name']);?>"/>

This is a controller

Code:

$data['last_name']= ucwords($_POST['last_name']);

This didn't work. Pls help

[eluser]cchi[/eluser]
Are you trying to pass the posted value back to your form?? Cause if you are try to use the set_value() function of codeigniter.

http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-gui...elper.html

Code:

<input type="text" name="quantity" value="<?php echo set_value('quantity', '0'); ?>" size="50" />


$data['last_name']= ucwords($_POST['last_name']); //when you do this you're passing the value back to your form' set the post value to a variable in order to submit it to a query.

>>$last_name = ucwords($_POST['last_name']);

[eluser]Thorpe Obazee[/eluser]
Use it as a rule in the form validation:

Code:

$this->form_validation->set_rules('username', 'Username', 'ucwords|trim|required|min_length[5]|max_length[12]|xss_clean');

Note: You can also use any native PHP functions that permit one parameter, like trim, htmlspecialchars, urldecode, etc.