help with ltrim and ucfirst

[gammaman]

lets say I have a statement $var= "  name";

 

How would I combine ltrim and ucfirst togther to get $var="Name";

 

 

 

[dooper3]

You do it like this:

 

$var=" name";
$var=ucfirst(ltrim($var));

 

whatever is inside brackets is always done first, so in this case the code strips the whitespace first, then takes the variable and capitalises the first letter afterwards.

[gammaman]

Ok great but lets say $var is assigned to a $_POST

 

can I just do ucfirst(ltrim($var));

 

or do I have to assign the $var=$_POST to another variable first and assigen that to

 

$var1 ucfirst(ltrim($var1));

[AndyB]

$some_form_input = ucfirst(ltrim($_POST['some_form_input']));

[gammaman]

Thanks that helped out a lot.