Upper case?

Hi--

I have the following Line in my script, which brings up data from the
category column of my mysql table:

echo "<b>",$category,"</b>";

But all the data there is lower case, and I wanted to make to make it upper
case when displayed. Is there a way to do this?

All My Best,
Jeffrey

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 11:21:16 -0700, Jeffrey Ellis <support@groundlevel.net>
wrote:

>I have the following Line in my script, which brings up data from the
>category column of my mysql table:
>
> echo "<b>",$category,"</b>";
>
>But all the data there is lower case, and I wanted to make to make it upper
>case when displayed. Is there a way to do this?

Go to http://www.php.net/
Type 'upper case' into the Search box.
One of the hits is http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.strtoupper.php

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in article miivjv4ar07qmtfipbggeb4q9dsfcf2vvj@4ax.com, Andy Hassall at
andy@andyh.co.uk wrote on 8/17/03 11:33 AM:

> On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 11:21:16 -0700, Jeffrey Ellis <support@groundlevel.net>
> wrote:
>
>> I have the following Line in my script, which brings up data from the
>> category column of my mysql table:
>>
>> echo "<b>",$category,"</b>";
>>
>> But all the data there is lower case, and I wanted to make to make it upper
>> case when displayed. Is there a way to do this?
>
> Go to http://www.php.net/
> Type 'upper case' into the Search box.
> One of the hits is http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.strtoupper.php
>
> --
> Andy Hassall (andy@andyh.co.uk) icq(5747695) (http://www.andyh.co.uk)
> Space: disk usage analysis tool (http://www.andyhsoftware.co.uk/space)

Hi, Andy--

Sorry, a bit of an addendum, and I made a mistake.

I actually looked at the category field in the database, and the data
already is in the case I need...but the echo is displaying it in lower
case...for example:

"Downloading" is echoed by that line as "downloading".

This isn't supposed to happen is it?

Also, I really meant Proper or Title case, not Upper...sorry. I did a search
for those terms at php.net and came up with no results for a function which
did that. Is there one?

All My Best,
Jeffrey

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 11:45:28 -0700, Jeffrey Ellis <support@groundlevel.net>
wrote:

>Sorry, a bit of an addendum, and I made a mistake.
>
>I actually looked at the category field in the database, and the data
>already is in the case I need...but the echo is displaying it in lower
>case...for example:
>
>"Downloading" is echoed by that line as "downloading".
>
>This isn't supposed to happen is it?

No. In that case, find both (a) the code that's echoing it, and (b) the SQL
query itself. One of them is modifying the value.

>Also, I really meant Proper or Title case, not Upper...sorry. I did a search
>for those terms at php.net and came up with no results for a function which
>did that. Is there one?

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.ucwords.php

If you're stuck for a function and can't find it in the search engine (because
you're not quite sure of keywords that would match) try browsing through the
sections. In this case you want to modify a string, so look through the String
functions section.

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