Problem - No Periods in submissions!

[ladydesigner]

I actually require that the first letter of the description sentence be capitalized. I have it stated clearly on the rules page. On one of my link lists, the script will fix it automatically but on the one I run by hand (yikes!), I'd have to manually fix all the submits that didn't follow this and it's just to tedious. I automatically delete submitted sites that don't capitalize the first letter of the description sentence and also if the first letter of each word in the title isn't capitalized. I do this pretty much because I run Click 4Sex Fun all by hand and simply don't have the time to fix each submit. As it is, my backlog is out of control!!

[MadMax]

Hey Netgoonie, what script are you running? I can give you a snippet of code to detect a period at the end of the description and add one if it isn't there (if your script is php).

[kenny]

Originally Posted by ClickBuster

Man, don't know how your script is coded, but if it's PHP maybe the following piece of code will be useful:

<?php
 $end = $description[strlen($description) - 1];
 $end != "." ? $description .= "." : 1;
?>

Assuming that the name of the variable is $description, this code will put a period at the end, in case the last char is not a period.

This is the route I would go if I wanted to insure periods.

[kenny]

Originally Posted by ladydesigner

I actually require that the first letter of the description sentence be capitalized. I have it stated clearly on the rules page. On one of my link lists, the script will fix it automatically but on the one I run by hand (yikes!), I'd have to manually fix all the submits that didn't follow this and it's just to tedious. I automatically delete submitted sites that don't capitalize the first letter of the description sentence and also if the first letter of each word in the title isn't capitalized. I do this pretty much because I run Click 4Sex Fun all by hand and simply don't have the time to fix each submit. As it is, my backlog is out of control!!

There is code that does that too.

I know in perl if the variable is called "$description" you do it like this:

ucfirst($description)

There is a way to do this in PHP too. But I never use PHP so I don't know

[Xeno]

I am using a cgi script....so any changes to this would need to be done from the makers. Thanks for the suggestion though ....I decided not to make it a submission guideline, however, modifying the script would make things easier for "eveyone" overall and I should maybe get them to do that.

[ClickBuster]

Originally Posted by sleeper

There is code that does that too.

I know in perl if the variable is called "$description" you do it like this:

ucfirst($description)

There is a way to do this in PHP too. But I never use PHP so I don't know

It's ucfirst($description) in PHP too