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almino dot melo at gmail dot com
9 years ago
ucwords for human names in Brazil.
ucwords personalizada para nomes próprios brasileiros.

<?php
/**
* ucwords for human names in Brazil
* Edit from http://php.net/manual/pt_BR/function.ucwords.php#112795
* @param string $str
* @param array $delimiters
* @param array $exceptions Exceptions are words you don't want converted
* @return string
*/
function name($str, $delimiters = array(
" ",
"-",
".",
"'",
"O'",
"Mc",
),
$exceptions = array(
"de",
"do",
"da",
"dos",
"das",
)) {
$result = '';

foreach (
$delimiters as $delimiter) {
# If string has a delimiter
if (strstr($str, $delimiter)) {

$ucfirst = array();
# Apply ucfirst to every word
foreach (explode($delimiter, mb_strtolower($str)) as $word) {
$word = mb_convert_case($word, MB_CASE_TITLE);

# Working with exceptions
if (in_array(mb_strtoupper($word), $exceptions)) {
$word = mb_strtoupper($word);
} elseif (
in_array(mb_strtolower($word), $exceptions)) {
$word = mb_strtolower($word);
} elseif (
preg_match('/^M{0,4}(CM|CD|D?C{0,3})(XC|XL|L?X{0,3})(IX|IV|V?I{0,3})$/', mb_strtoupper($word))) {
# Is roman numerals? # http://stackoverflow.com/a/267405/437459
$word = mb_strtoupper($word);
}

$ucfirst[] = $word;
}

# string's first character uppercased
$result = implode($delimiter, $ucfirst);
}
}

return
$result;
}
?>

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