Capitalize first letter in <em>

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10861203

Question 

$item = 'some <html> goes <div class="here"> and </div> can be placed <em>     some words</em>, and then more </html> can exist';

How do I capitalize the first letter of the first word inside <em>...</em> only?

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Solution

this?

function ucfirstword($str) {
   $estr = explode(" ",$str);
   $estr[0] = ucfirst($estr[0]);
   return implode(" ",$estr);
}

...
echo "<em>     ".ucfirstword("some words")."</em>";

OTHER TIPS

You can use a regular expression, like this:

function replaceStuff($matches){
        return $matches[1].strtoupper($matches[2]);
}

$item=preg_replace_callback("/(<em[^>]*>[^\\w]*)(\\w)/i","replaceStuff",$item);

↪ Read more about using preg_replace_callback.

Note: you can also do this using CSS; to do this, you can use this code:

em:first-letter {
 text-transform:capitalize;
}

↪ Read more about the text-transform property.

if you need only this string, you can do like this

 $item = 'some <html> goes <div class="here"> and </div> can be placed <em>     ';
 $item .= ucfirst("some words");
 $item .= '</em>, and then more </html> can exist';
echo $item;

Try this:

$item = 'some <html> goes <div class="here"> and </div> can be placed <em style="text-transform: uppercase">some</em>, and then more </html> can exist';

Maybe this helps you.

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