title: Magento - Forcing a form field to send upper case values to database
body: <p>We want to force registration form fields input to be all in uppercase and I tried this code <code>&lt;?php @$_REQUEST['firstname'] = strtoupper(@$_REQUEST['firstname']); ?&gt;</code> but it doesn't help. Am I missing our something? </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div class="field name-firstname"&gt;
  &lt;?php @$_REQUEST['firstname'] = strtoupper(@$_REQUEST['firstname']); ?&gt;    
      &lt;label for="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;getFieldId('firstname')?&gt;" class="required"&gt;&lt;em&gt;*&lt;/em&gt;&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;getStoreLabel('firstname') ?&gt;&lt;/label&gt;
      &lt;div class="input-box"&gt;
          &lt;input type="text" id="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;getFieldId('firstname')?&gt;" name="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;getFieldName('firstname')?&gt;" value="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;escapeHtml($this-&gt;getObject()-&gt;getFirstname()) ?&gt;" title="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;getStoreLabel('firstname') ?&gt;" maxlength="255" class="input-text &lt;?php echo $this-&gt;helper('customer/address')-&gt;getAttributeValidationClass('firstname') ?&gt;" &lt;?php echo $this-&gt;getFieldParams() ?&gt; /&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>