ucfirst to capitalize first character of a string

ucfirst(): Converting the first char to upper case

$output=ucfirst($input_str);

Parameter	DESCRIPTION
$input_str	Required : Input string

We can use php string function ucfirst() to change all first character of string to upper case

Now let us try with one example

Here is a string variable $str with one string inside it. We will use ucfirst() to capitalize first chars of the string.

$str="welcome to plus2net.com";
$str=ucfirst($str);
echo $str;

The output is here

Welcome To plus2net.com

DEMO

Example 2: Capitalizing the First Character After Trimming Whitespace

Use ucfirst() with trim() to capitalize the first character of a string that may contain leading whitespace.

$str = "   php tutorial";
$str = ucfirst(trim($str));
echo $str;  // Outputs: Php tutorial

Example 3: Handling Non-ASCII Characters

Since ucfirst() doesn’t handle multibyte characters, for non-ASCII strings, use *mb_ucfirst()*:

function mb_ucfirst($str) {
    return mb_strtoupper(mb_substr($str, 0, 1)) . mb_substr($str, 1);
}
echo mb_ucfirst("élève"); // Outputs: Élève

String Functions ucwords(): To Change first char of all words to upper case of a string. how to change all the letters to upper case

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