Here's a function to capitalize segments of a name, and put the rest into lower case. You can pass the characters you want to use as delimiters.

i.e. <?php echo nameize("john o'grady-smith"); ?>

returns John O'Grady-Smith

<?php

function nameize($str,$a_char = array("'","-"," ")){    
    //$str contains the complete raw name string
    //$a_char is an array containing the characters we use as separators for capitalization. If you don't pass anything, there are three in there as default.
    $string = strtolower($str);
    foreach ($a_char as $temp){
        $pos = strpos($string,$temp);
        if ($pos){
            //we are in the loop because we found one of the special characters in the array, so lets split it up into chunks and capitalize each one.
            $mend = '';
            $a_split = explode($temp,$string);
            foreach ($a_split as $temp2){
                //capitalize each portion of the string which was separated at a special character
                $mend .= ucfirst($temp2).$temp;
                }
            $string = substr($mend,0,-1);
            }    
        }
    return ucfirst($string);
    }

?>