Php capitalise word after bracket

Question

I am trying to capitalise every word in a php string but the function isn't detecting a word that is being immediately followed by a bracket. How can I make it so that a word directly after a bracket is capitalised?

Example: amharic (ethiopian) .... Amharic (Ethiopian)

(currently using ucwords(), PHP displays Amharic (ethiopian) )

Answer 1

This is a known bug which requires there to be whitespace between open-parenthesis and the first letter. Here's a workaround:

$var = "amharic (ethiopian)";

echo str_replace('( ', '(', ucwords(str_replace('(', '( ', $var)));

Result

Amharic (Ethiopian)

See the demo

Answer 2

Try this,i tried it ,

$text= "amharic (ethiopian)";
echo mb_convert_case($text, MB_CASE_TITLE, "UTF-8");

output : Amharic (Ethiopian)

Note:It looks like the mbstring function on PHP is to be enabled.

Answer 3

Below function use to covert word with Bracket into Capitalize after Bracket

    function ucWordWithBracket($edit){
        $new_word = str_replace("(","( ",$edit);
        $temp = ucwords($new_word);
        $new_word = str_replace("( ","(",$temp);
        return $new_word;
    }

ucWordWithBracket(amharic (ethiopian))

Output of funcation is "Amharic (Ethiopian)";