Auto capitalizing first letter of topic title?

[xlguy]

I want my board to automatically capitalize topic titles. For example if a user starts a new thread with the title "hello this is me" the software will automatically convert it to "Hello this is me", i.e. a capital 'H'.

I came up with a solution myself, which is to edit the newthread.php file.

PHP Code:

$lowsubject =& $vbulletin->GPC['subject'];
$upsubject = strtoupper($lowsubject{0}).substr($lowsubject, 1, strlen($lowsubject) - 1);
$newpost['title'] =& $upsubject; 


Is this ok? I'm not really up to date on how 3.5 works, but this solution seems to work for me. My questions are a) is there a neater/better way to do this? b) will I create any problems using that solution? and c) what is this difference betwen =& and plain old =?

Thanks

[calorie]

No file edit needed. Make a plugin that hooks to 'newthread_post_start' with the following content:

$vbulletin->GPC['subject'] = ucfirst($vbulletin->GPC['subject']);

[xlguy]

Great suggestion, thanks a lot calorie.

For those of you who see this thread and implement the idea (which I personally feel would be a 'neat' option in vB options) don't forget to enable the plugin system otherwise it won't work - obvious I know but it's off by default.

[rlamego]

You can also do this with CSS

[LBSources]

can anyone share the right way to do this? or is the OP's way just fine? id appreciate it..

Lenny

[SnickersTK]

Originally Posted by calorie

No file edit needed. Make a plugin that hooks to 'newthread_post_start' with the following content:

$vbulletin->GPC['subject'] = ucfirst($vbulletin->GPC['subject']);

doesn't work. (Running 3.5.2)

Any other suggestions people?

[SnickersTK]

people?

[criscokid]

Originally Posted by calorie

No file edit needed. Make a plugin that hooks to 'newthread_post_start' with the following content:

$vbulletin->GPC['subject'] = ucfirst($vbulletin->GPC['subject']);

Please can you explain the steps taken to do this. I'm new to creating vB Plugins.

[calorie]

<a href="http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/add_plugin" target="_blank">http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/add_plugin</a>

This definitely works, thanks Calorie.

Here's the plugin.