(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
ucfirst — Make a string's first character uppercase
$string): string
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!
?>