(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
ucfirst — Make a string's first character uppercase
$str
) : string
Returns a string with the first character of
str capitalized, if that character is
alphabetic.
Note that 'alphabetic' is determined by the current locale. For instance, in the default "C" locale characters such as umlaut-a (ä) will not be converted.
strThe input string.
Returns the resulting string.
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!
?>