NameCase

Forenames and surnames are often stored either entirely in UPPERCASE or lowercase. This package allows you to convert names into the correct case where possible. Although forenames and surnames are typically stored separately if they appear in a single string, whitespace-separated, NameCase deals correctly with them.

Currently, NameCase correctly name-cases names which include any of the following:

Mc, Mac, al, el, ap, bat, ben, bin, binti, binte, da, de, das, dos, delle, della, di, du, del, der, den, ten, ter, la, le, lo, van and von.

It correctly deals with names that contain apostrophes and hyphens, too.

Note

This README.md is for version 3.x.
If you need a PHP 5 compatible version, please use 1.0.x! README.md

Install

Via Composer

$ composer require tamtamchik/namecase

Usage

use \Tamtamchik\NameCase\Formatter;
use function \Tamtamchik\NameCase\str_name_case;

// As a static call
Formatter::nameCase("KEITH");                            // => Keith
Formatter::nameCase("LEIGH-WILLIAMS");                   // => Leigh-Williams
Formatter::nameCase("MCCARTHY");                         // => McCarthy
Formatter::nameCase("O'CALLAGHAN");                      // => O'Callaghan
Formatter::nameCase("ST. JOHN");                         // => St. John
Formatter::nameCase("VON STREIT");                       // => von Streit
Formatter::nameCase("AP LLWYD DAFYDD");                  // => ap Llwyd Dafydd
Formatter::nameCase("HENRY VIII");                       // => Henry VIII
Formatter::nameCase("VAN DYKE");                         // => van Dyke

// Or as an instance
$formatter = new Formatter();
$formatter->nameCase("LOUIS XIV");                       // => Louis XIV

// Or as a function
str_name_case("JJ ABRAMS");                              // => JJ Abrams

// Passing options (see below for details)
Formatter::setOptions([
  'lazy'        => true,
  'irish'       => true,
  'spanish'     => false,
  'roman'       => true,
  'hebrew'      => true,
  'postnominal' => true,
]);

// Or
$formatter = new Formatter(['spanish' => true]);

// Or 
$formatter->setOptions([
    'lazy' = false, 
    'postnominal' => false
]);

// Or even
Formatter::nameCase("VAN DYKE", ['lazy' = false]);

// And for function
str_name_case("VAN DYKE", ['lazy' = false]);

Options

• lazy – Default: true. Do not do anything if the string is already mixed case and the lazy option is true.
• irish – Default: true. Correct "Mac" exceptions.
• spanish – Default: false. Correct el, la and Spanish conjunctions.
• roman – Default: true. Correct Roman numbers.
• hebrew – Default: true. Correct ben, bat.
• postnominal – Default: true. Correct post-nominal e.g. PhD.

Exclude Post-Nominals

<?php

use Tamtamchik\NameCase\Formatter;

Formatter::excludePostNominals('MOst');

Formatter::nameCase('ČERNÝ MOST');

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Testing & Demo

$ composer tests
$ composer demo

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING and CODE_OF_CONDUCT for details.

Security

If you discover any security-related issues, please email [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.

Acknowledgements

This library is a port of the Perl library and owes most of its functionality to the Perl version by Mark Summerfield.
I also used some solutions from Ruby version by Aaron Patterson.
Any bugs in the PHP port are my fault.

Credits

Original PERL Lingua::EN::NameCase Version:

• Copyright © Mark Summerfield 1998-2014. All Rights Reserved.
• Copyright © Barbie 2014-2019. All Rights Reserved.

Ruby Version:

• Copyright © Aaron Patterson 2006. All Rights Reserved.

PHP Version:

• Yuri Tkachenko
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.

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