[SOLVED] ucfirst()

[cordoprod]

Hello.

 

I need some help with capitalizing the first letter of a string..

I use ucfirst() which works well if i have a string in lower captions..

 

But, i have upper captions and then ucfirst() doesn't work..

 

E.g:

 

STRING - STRING

string - String

[kenrbnsn]

For ucfirst to work the string needs to be in lowercase, so use the strtolower() function first.

 

Ken

[cordoprod]

For ucfirst to work the string needs to be in lowercase, so use the strtolower() function first.

 

Ken

 

Thanks mate :-)

[cordoprod]

For ucfirst to work the string needs to be in lowercase, so use the strtolower() function first.

 

Ken

 

Thanks mate :-)

 

One more thing... If the last letter is the same as the first one it also get capitalized...

 

E.g

 

Example - ExamplE

[spectacularstuff]

Use substr to only count the first letter and ignore the rest.

$rest = substr("abcdef", 1);    // returns "a"

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php

 

Wayne

[Fidsah]

Using this:

 

$string = "EXAMPLE";

 

print ucfirst(strtolower($string));

 

gives me this:

 

Example

 

[xtopolis]

<?php
$word = 'ExaMPle';


$word = ucfirst(strtolower($word));

$last = substr($word,strlen($word)-1);

$word = substr_replace($word,strtoupper($last),strlen($word)-1,strlen($word));

//outputs ExamplE
?>

[AndyB]

Although it may not be needed in this code requirement (although there might still be 'one more thing'), you might want to use the trim() function to remove any leading/trailing spaces that interfere with counting the number of characters, etc.