ctype_lower to check if all characters are lower case or not in PHP

ctype_lower(): Checking for all lower case letters

$string='abcasdf';
if (ctype_lower($string)) {
echo " All characters are Lower case only ";
}else{
echo " All characters are not lower case  ";
}

The output of above code will be

All characters are Lower case only

Syntax

ctype_upper($input_string);

Return value will be TRUE ( if all lower case chars ) or FALSE.

Presence of Blank space

This function checks for lower cases chars only so presence of any blank space will return as FALSE only.

$string='abc asdf';

if (ctype_lower($string)) {
echo " All characters are Lower case only ";
}else{
echo " Not all characters are lower case  ";
}

Output will be

Not all characters are lower case

Presence of Special characters

Presence of Special characters will also return FALSE , only change the string part like this in above code.

$string='abc)asdf';

Output will be

Not all characters are lower case

Examples multiple strings & ctype_lower()

$str = array("hello world", "abcdef", "ab#cd","34",442);
foreach ($str as $val){
if (ctype_lower($val)){
 echo "<p class='text-success'>The string <b>$val</b> consists of lower Case letters .</p>";
 } else {
 echo "<p class='text-danger'>The string <b>$val</b> does not consist of all lower case letters.</p>";
}
}

The string hello world does not consist of all lower case letters.
The string abcdef consists of lower Case letters .
The string ab#cd does not consist of all lower case letters.
The string 34 does not consist of all lower case letters.
The string 442 does not consist of all lower case letters.

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