php-doc-en/reference/strings/functions/ucfirst.xml
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<refentry id="function.ucfirst">
<refnamediv>
<refname>ucfirst</refname>
<refpurpose>Make a string's first character uppercase</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>string</type><methodname>ucfirst</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>str</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<para>
Returns a string with the first character of
<parameter>str</parameter> capitalized, 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.
<example>
<title><function>ucfirst</function> example</title>
<programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$foo = 'hello world!';
$foo = ucfirst($foo); // Hello world!
$bar = 'HELLO WORLD!';
$bar = ucfirst($bar); // HELLO WORLD!
$bar = ucfirst(strtolower($bar)); // Hello world!
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
</example>
</para>
<para>
See also <function>strtolower</function>, <function>strtoupper</function>,
and <function>ucwords</function>.
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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