Costumer registration: First letter in caps

[meddiecap]

As the title says.

 

I find that costumers sometimes do not write their names with the first letter in uppercase. I find it a bit unprofessional looking when customers login or place an order and read e.g. john doe instead of John Doe.

 

I did some searching on the forums but I didn't get any result.

 

I know a fair amount of PHP and I can manually edit the code so that where the data is put into the database a run a ucfirst() (or whatever is needed) on it.

But it's faster if someone has already fixed this and/or knows where I can find this specific contribution/solution.

 

Thanx

[germ]

This may help: Click Me

 

Except you'd probably be dealing with this code:

 

	$firstname = tep_db_prepare_input($HTTP_POST_VARS['firstname']);
$lastname = tep_db_prepare_input($HTTP_POST_VARS['lastname']);

And change it to:

 

	$firstname = ucfirst( tep_db_prepare_input($HTTP_POST_VARS['firstname']) );
$lastname = ucfirst( tep_db_prepare_input($HTTP_POST_VARS['lastname']) );

As always it's a good idea to backup any file before making edits.

[PLByrne]

We do this with Javascript on our site The advantage is that for people who have names starting with lower case letters (there are a few!) they can correct it when it changes (it will only upper case the name once)

 

<script language="javascript"><!--
var firstname = 1;
var lastname = 1;

function updateCase(theField){
theField.value = theField.value.toLowerCase();
fVal = theField.value.replace(/\b(\w)/g, function(c){return c.toUpperCase()});
if(fVal != theField.value){
	theField.value = fVal;
}
}

function properCase(theField, theVar){
if (theVar == 'firstname' && firstname) {
	updateCase(theField);
	firstname = 0;
}
if (theVar == 'lastname' && lastname) {
	updateCase(theField);
	lastname = 0;
}
}
//--></script>

 

Lower down the page:

 

		  <tr>
		<td class="main" width="140"> First Name:</td>
		<td class="main"> <input type="text" name="firstname" id="firstname" onblur="properCase(this, 'firstname')"> <span class="inputRequirement">*</span></td>
	  </tr>

	  <tr>
		<td class="main" width="140"> Last Name:</td>
		<td class="main"> <input type="text" name="lastname" id="lastname" onblur="properCase(this, 'lastname')"> <span class="inputRequirement">*</span></td>
	  </tr>

[♥geoffreywalton]

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