Idea for the Coop Ads

I've noticed many ads that appear in all lower case. Could someone provide a hack or maybe Shawn could even hard code it into the php so that the first letter of each word in an ad is raised to Unicode upper case? They just look like advertisements rather than nice links when some are in lower case and some have each first letter in upper case. It would also be interesting to have english translations for the foreign anchors that are presented on english sites. Most of those links seem to show up in very odd characters very unlikely to provide good anchor text for Google anyway.

 

There are simple php snipplets mfor, like:
$str = strtolower($str);
or uppercase

 

Of course if it is a hack, how will Shawn show his ads for eBay

 

Something like this could work:

function formatAd($adText) {
if (ctype_lower($adText)) foreach (explode(' ', $adText) as $ad) $adText .= ucfirst($ad) . ' ';

return trim($adText);
}

It wouldn't work on strings containing numbers tho... But should allow for text ads like: eBay

 

I doubt you are allowed to hack the PHP code. That next step would be people trimming the length etc. rendering the whole idea of choosing your own anchor text useless.

Just use the CSS style definition to make it Titel Case. This question has been asked before BTW.

And by the way, the new mandatory guidelines make you format them so all lower case or all-caps ads will soon be a thing of the past anyway.

 

Hmm, my code suggestion was directed to the owner of the network. They could run the ad text through a function like that before outputting the links out to sites in the network.