Friday 29 April 2011

Javascript using PHP functions

Ever wanted to use functions easily available in the PHP library but with Javascript?

I found a new project called the PHP-JS project and it's pretty cool. They have covered most of the PHP functions and written some really good Javascript. The other day I needed a snippet of Javascript code to Uppercase the first letters of new words, which is the ucwords() function in PHP. Here's their code:

function ucwords (str) {
    return (str + '').replace(/^([a-z])|\s+([a-z])/g, function ($1) {
        return $1.toUpperCase();
    });
}

So to use it I write:

//Capitalizes the words to 'The Cat Sat On The Mat'
alert( ucwords('the cat sat on the mat') );

Nice. Visit the site at http://www.phpjs.org/.

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