URL Rewriting : How To Automatically Capitalize URLs ?

Question

How to automatically capitalize URLs like this ? =>

Answer 1

ok, here is quick core hack:

in 'qa-base.php' find 'qa_q_request' function. at the end of it replace

        return (int)$questionid.'/'.$title;

with

        return (int)$questionid.'/'.strtoupper($title);
 

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OK, I made a quick guide to create a plugin for this(nothing fancy), you can check it here:

http://qa-themes.com/forums/topic/capitalizing-urls-of-questions

I don't think that many people will like to use it since lower case URL's look cleaner, but if I'm wrong and there is more request I can add it to repository.

Comments

Hi Qa-Themes, your hack "uppercase" all letters..., I just want the first letter of each word to "capitalize". And it's not working with tag.

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well, I guess this will do:
    return  str_replace(' ', '?', ucwords(str_replace('?', ' ',  str_replace(' ', '/', ucwords(str_replace('/', ' ', str_replace(' ', '-', ucwords( str_replace('-', ' ', strtolower($url)) )) )) ))));
too many brackets? :D

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well some errors, thanks anyway, I will use full uppercase,and how to change the same function for Tags?

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are you sure you didn't add last line? it's just this line of code and it works on all six permalinks types:

     return  str_replace(' ', '?', ucwords(str_replace('?', ' ',  str_replace(' ', '/', ucwords(str_replace('/', ' ', str_replace(' ', '-', ucwords( str_replace('-', ' ', strtolower($url)) )) )) ))));

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I add this =>
     return (int)$questionid.'/'.strtoupper($title);
        return  str_replace(' ', '?', ucwords(str_replace('?', ' ',  str_replace(' ', '/', ucwords(str_replace('/', ' ', str_replace(' ', '-', ucwords( str_replace('-', ' ', strtolower($url)) )) )) ))));

And users and tags urls are still lowers. And question pages are full uppercase.

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you must remove the fist line, because when a 'return' command is executed nothing after that will be called.

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I add only this =>  return  str_replace(' ', '?', ucwords(str_replace('?', ' ',  str_replace(' ', '/', ucwords(str_replace('/', ' ', str_replace(' ', '-', ucwords( str_replace('-', ' ', strtolower($url)) )) )) ))));

and I have these error => <b>Notice</b>:  Undefined variable: url in <b>/home/numeroco/public_html/odlg.org/qa-include/qa-base.php</b> on line <b>1255</b><br />

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create a plugin according to this guide: http://qa-themes.com/forums/topic/capitalizing-urls-of-questions
in case you want to do the core hack, replace
     return (int)$questionid.'/'.$title;
with
     return  str_replace(' ', '?', ucwords(str_replace('?', ' ',  str_replace(' ', '/', ucwords(str_replace('/', ' ', str_replace(' ', '-', ucwords( str_replace('-', ' ', strtolower((int)$questionid.'/'.$title)) )) )) ))));

Answer 2

this feature is added as a part of a new plugin I developed. check it out here:

http://www.question2answer.org/qa/33567/new-plugin-url-customizer