diff --git a/reference/strings/functions/lcfirst.xml b/reference/strings/functions/lcfirst.xml
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@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
+<!-- $Revision: 1.1 $ -->
+<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xml:id="function.lcfirst">
+ <refnamediv>
+  <refname>lcfirst</refname>
+  <refpurpose>Make a string's first character lowercase</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+ 
+ <refsect1 role="description">
+  &reftitle.description;
+  <methodsynopsis>
+   <type>string</type><methodname>lcfirst</methodname>
+   <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>str</parameter></methodparam>
+  </methodsynopsis>
+  <para>
+   Returns a string with the first character of
+   <parameter>str</parameter> , lowercased if that character is
+   alphabetic.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+   Note that 'alphabetic' is determined by the current locale. For
+   instance, in the default "C" locale characters such as umlaut-a
+   (&auml;) will not be converted.
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1 role="parameters">
+  &reftitle.parameters;
+  <para>
+   <variablelist>
+    <varlistentry>
+     <term><parameter>str</parameter></term>
+     <listitem>
+      <para>
+       The input string.
+      </para>
+     </listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+   </variablelist>
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
+  &reftitle.returnvalues;
+  <para>
+   Returns the resulting string.
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1 role="examples">
+  &reftitle.examples;
+  <para>
+   <example>
+    <title><function>lcfirst</function> example</title>
+    <programlisting role="php">
+<![CDATA[
+<?php
+$foo = 'HelloWorld';
+$foo = lcfirst($foo);             // helloWorld
+
+$bar = 'HELLO WORLD!';
+$bar = lcfirst($bar);             // hELLO WORLD!
+$bar = lcfirst(strtoupper($bar)); // hELLO WORLD!
+?>
+]]>
+    </programlisting>
+   </example>   
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1 role="seealso">
+  &reftitle.seealso;
+  <para>
+   <simplelist>
+    <member><function>ucfirst</function></member>
+    <member><function>strtolower</function></member>
+    <member><function>strtoupper</function></member>
+    <member><function>ucwords</function></member>
+   </simplelist>
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+</refentry>
+
+<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
+Local variables:
+mode: sgml
+sgml-omittag:t
+sgml-shorttag:t
+sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
+sgml-always-quote-attributes:t
+sgml-indent-step:1
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+indent-tabs-mode:nil
+sgml-parent-document:nil
+sgml-default-dtd-file:"../../../../manual.ced"
+sgml-exposed-tags:nil
+sgml-local-catalogs:nil
+sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
+End:
+vim600: syn=xml fen fdm=syntax fdl=2 si
+vim: et tw=78 syn=sgml
+vi: ts=1 sw=1
+-->
diff --git a/reference/strings/functions/ucfirst.xml b/reference/strings/functions/ucfirst.xml
index 18fa739b90..95be77b593 100644
--- a/reference/strings/functions/ucfirst.xml
+++ b/reference/strings/functions/ucfirst.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.6 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.7 $ -->
 <refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xml:id="function.ucfirst">
  <refnamediv>
   <refname>ucfirst</refname>
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ $bar = ucfirst(strtolower($bar)); // Hello world!
   &reftitle.seealso;
   <para>
    <simplelist>
+    <member><function>lcfirst</function></member>
     <member><function>strtolower</function></member>
     <member><function>strtoupper</function></member>
     <member><function>ucwords</function></member>