[PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PHP 8]
lcfirst — Make a string's first character lowercase
Description
lcfirst[string $string
]: string
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.
Parameters
string
The input string.
Return Values
Returns the resulting string.
Examples
Example #1 lcfirst[] example
See Also
- ucfirst[] - Make a string's first character uppercase
- strtolower[] - Make a string lowercase
- strtoupper[] - Make a string uppercase
- ucwords[] - Uppercase the first character of each word in a string
phpnet at katylavallee dot com ¶
13 years ago
Easiest work-around I've found for
alex aulbach ¶
13 years ago
In some cases maybe more useful?
$lower = strtolower[ substr[$upper,0,1] ] . substr[$upper,1];
harmor ¶
14 years ago
A slight modification from Northie's post here [ //us2.php.net/manual/en/function.ucfirst.php#68443], where lcfirst may not exist in your PHP build: