<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >ucfirst</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="String Functions" HREF="ref.strings.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="trim" HREF="function.trim.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="ucwords" HREF="function.ucwords.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.trim.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.ucwords.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.ucfirst" ></A >ucfirst</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN116459" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 , PHP 5)</P >ucfirst -- Make a string's first character uppercase</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN116462" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >ucfirst</B > ( string str)<BR ></BR ><P > Returns a string with the first character of <VAR CLASS="parameter" >str</VAR > capitalized, if that character is alphabetic. </P ><P > Note that 'alphabetic' is determined by the current locale. For instance, in the default "C" locale characters such as umlaut-a (ä) will not be converted. <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN116473" ></A ><P ><B >Exemplu 1. <B CLASS="function" >ucfirst()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><font color="#000000"> <font color="#0000BB"><?php<br />$foo </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#DD0000">'hello world!'</font><font color="#007700">;<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$foo </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#0000BB">ucfirst</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$foo</font><font color="#007700">); </font><font color="#FF8000">// Hello world!<br /><br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$bar </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#DD0000">'HELLO WORLD!'</font><font color="#007700">;<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$bar </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#0000BB">ucfirst</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$bar</font><font color="#007700">); </font><font color="#FF8000">// HELLO WORLD!<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$bar </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#0000BB">ucfirst</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">strtolower</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$bar</font><font color="#007700">)); </font><font color="#FF8000">// Hello world!<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?></font> </font> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.strtolower.html" ><B CLASS="function" >strtolower()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.strtoupper.html" ><B CLASS="function" >strtoupper()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.ucwords.html" ><B CLASS="function" >ucwords()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.trim.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Acasã</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.ucwords.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >trim</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.strings.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Sus</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >ucwords</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >