ucwords to capitalize first letter of every word of a string

ucwords() :Converting the first letter to upper case of each word

$str="welcome to plus2net.com. you can learn web programming here";
$str=ucwords($str);
echo $str;

The output is here

Welcome To Plus2net.com. You Can Learn Web Programming Here

Syntax

$output=ucwords($input_str [,string $delimiters]);

Parameter	DESCRIPTION
`$input_str`	Required : Input string
`$delimiters`	Optional : contains the word separator characters.

With delimiters

Here we have used , as word delimiters

$my_str="hello,welcome";
echo ucwords($my_str,',');

Output is here

Hello,Welcome

Now we will use | as delimiters

$my_str="hello,welcome|home";
echo ucwords($my_str,'|');

Output is here

Hello,welcome|Home

Using both , and | as delimiters

$my_str="hello,welcome|home";
echo ucwords($my_str,'|,');

Output is here

Hello,Welcome|Home

DEMO

Example: Capitalizing Words with Custom Delimiters

$str = 'hello-world_php-tutorial';
echo ucwords($str, "-_");  // Output: Hello-World_Php-Tutorial

Example: Capitalizing UTF-8 Strings

$str = 'привет мир';
echo mb_convert_case($str, MB_CASE_TITLE, "UTF-8");  // Output: Привет Мир

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

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