@graup stuff

We needed a way to normalize user names. Cuz you know, people keep entering their names in an ugly way, which annoys the admins’ eyes.

As it turns out, there’s actually a function built into PHP which does that.  I then added a revert for words like “von” or “of”.

All put together (with credits to the at psychoticneurotic dot com):

function name($string) {
		$exceptions = array('von','de','to', 'a', 'der', 'the', 'of', 'I', 'II', 'III', 'IV', 'V', 'VI', 'VII', 'VIII', 'IX', 'X');

		$string = mb_convert_case($string, MB_CASE_TITLE, "UTF-8");
		
		/* revert exceptions */
		$words = explode(' ',$string);
		$words2 = array();
		foreach($words AS $word) {
			if (in_array(strtolower($word), $exceptions)) {
       			$word = strtolower($word);
        	}
        	array_push($words2, $word);
		}
		$string = implode(' ',$words2);
		return $string;
	}