(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
ucfirst — Make a string's first character uppercase
$string
Returns a string with the first character of string capitalized, if that character is an ASCII character in the range from "a" (0x61) to "z" (0x7a).
string
"a"
"z"
The input string.
Returns the resulting string.
Example #1 ucfirst() example
<?php $foo = 'hello world!'; echo ucfirst($foo), PHP_EOL; // Hello world! $bar = 'HELLO WORLD!'; echo ucfirst($bar), PHP_EOL; // HELLO WORLD! echo ucfirst(strtolower($bar)), PHP_EOL; // Hello world! ?>