(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
ucfirst — Make a string's first character uppercase
Returns a string with the first character of string capitalized, if that character is an ASCII character in the range from "a" (0x61) to "z" (0x7a).
stringThe input string.
Returns the resulting string.
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 8.2.0 | Case conversion no longer depends on the locale set with setlocale(). Only ASCII characters will be converted. |
Example #1 ucfirst() example
<?php
$foo = 'hello world!';
$foo = ucfirst($foo); // Hello world!
$bar = 'HELLO WORLD!';
$bar = ucfirst($bar); // HELLO WORLD!
$bar = ucfirst(strtolower($bar)); // Hello world!
?>