ucfirst

Make a string's first character uppercase

Description

string ucfirst(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).

Parameters

string

The input string.

Return Values

Returns the resulting string.

Changelog

Version Description
8.2.0 Case conversion no longer depends on the locale set with setlocale. Only ASCII characters will be converted.

Examples

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!
?>

See Also

  • lcfirst
  • strtolower
  • strtoupper
  • ucwords
  • mb_convert_case