Preventing all caps in message?

[Cold Steel]

Has this been done yet? I did a search for "caps" and this didn't turn up.

I have one member who has her caps lock permanently on, and it's annoying.

Is there some way to turn it off, from my end?

[Scott MacVicar]

go to you vBulletin admin panel then into vBulletin Options you need to then click the [Thread display options] options link and turn Stop 'Shouting' in titles to Yes.

[Admin]

And if you want to do that for the whole message, add this code:

  if ($bbcode == strtoupper($bbcode)) {
    $bbcode = ucwords(strtolower($bbcode));
  }

In functions.php right after this:

    $dobbcode=$forum[allowbbcode];
  }

[Sparkz]

And to make only the first letter of a sentence uppercase you could change this:

PHP Code:

  if ($bbcode == strtoupper($bbcode)) {
    $bbcode = ucwords(strtolower($bbcode));
  } 


to something like this:

PHP Code:

  if ($bbcode == strtoupper($bbcode)) {
    $bbarr = explode ('.', $bbcode);
    $bbcode = "";
    foreach ($bbarr as $bbsentence) {
      $bbcode .= ucwords(strtolower($bbsentence));
    }
  } 


Untested...

[Admin]

Nope, that won't work Sparkz. And it will also remove all the "." from it.

[Admin]

BTW you can use ucfirst() instead of ucwords() to get the first character capitalized (in the text, not the first in each sentence).

[Cold Steel]

Thanks FireFly.

Now "ONE TWO THREE" looks like "One Two Three." I'd rather have it all lowercase... is that possible?

[Sparkz]

PHP Code:

if ($bbcode == strtoupper($bbcode)) {
    $bbarr = explode ('.', $bbcode);
    $bbcode = "";
    foreach ($bbarr as $bbsentence) {
      $bbcode .= ucfirst(strtolower(ltrim($bbsentence))) . ".";
    }
} 


Try this. You'll lose all whitespace in the beginning of the sentences, ie "THIS IS CAPS. THIS IS CAPS" will become "This is caps.This is caps"

[Sparkz]

Originally posted by FireFly
BTW you can use ucfirst() instead of ucwords() to get the first character capitalized (in the text, not the first in each sentence).

lol, I was obviously going to use ucfirst() in my first attempt, but forgot to change it (I copy'n'pasted your code. To lazy to write it out by hand :P )

[Cold Steel]

Thanks Sparkz! I can deal with the lack of whitespace, but the code also adds an extra period at the end. Is there anything that can be done about that?