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Jim_UK · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:44 pm Post subject: All Capitals

Does anyone know of a mod that will take a post that is in all upper case and convert it to lower case save first letter in a sentence or a word or in the case of lone letters?
Either that or if the post is in all upper case stop the post from being made with a warning about SHOUTING.

Before anyone suggests the one in the phpbb.com database I have tested it and basically it does not work properly. It turns all to lower case bar the first letter but in a genuine post that requires some capitalisation it turns some capitals to lower and some lower to capitals.
Posting "My name is Joe Bloggs" gives you "My naMe is joe bloggs"
Note the loss of the two capital letters and the strange way it has capitalised the letter "m"

I am wanting to add this just for one person that keeps lapsing into All capitals (may be intentional as he has been told off on numerous occasions).
I know that some would say ban him if he keeps breaking the rules but I do not want to go down that road.

Jim

Dog Cow · Board Member Joined: 18 Nov 2008 Posts: 378

There doesn't appear to be a straightforward solution, but you could have a look here: http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.ucfirst.php#72718
There are a few solutions for capitalizing the first word of each sentence provided on that page.

dogs and things · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:30 pm Post subject: Re: All Capitals

Hi Jim,

I use Prevent All Caps Posts Hack and it works, it prevents posting posts and/or titles in ALL CAPS. It shows a message telling the user to not use ALL CAPS.

It's amazingly simple to install.

Have a see...

Jim_UK · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:59 am Post subject: Re: All Capitals

Thanks guys.
If not to convert back to lower case then the best solution is to stop the post so looks like the one in the last post will do the trick.

Jim

Edit
Better than the other mod but still has some severe limitations. The presence of a single lower case letter in the whole post is enough to allow the post to go through. We could have something like this.

I WILL POST IN ALL CAPITALS AND THERE IS LITTLE YOU CAN DO THAT WILL STOP IT GOING THrOUGH.

Mind you, if he does do that then I shall just activate the troll mod on him.

I and my co-admin have bent over backwards to accommodate him, even retyping some of his posts but we are getting to the end of our tether now.

Maybe some sort of check on what percentage are in upper case would be an improvement with the mod.