(PHP) making string lowercase , with exception of first letter

Question

I've made a simple textbox which leads to a new page which echo's the input word by word (explode). Now i want to to change all the letters to lowercase except the first letter (if this is inputted this way)

for example : Herman Archer LIVEs in NeW YORK --> Herman Archer lives in new york

I hope you can help me out , thanks in advance!

try `ucfirst(strtolower("Herman Archer LIVEs in NeW YORK"));` — Ravikumar Sharma, Mar 04 '14 at 11:45
Don't know why someone downvoted this question. Either mark it as a duplicate or just let it be. For someone starting to code this is actually a valid question. + voting to compensate. — Damien Overeem, Mar 04 '14 at 11:47

score 19 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 04 '14 at 11:45

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$str = 'stRing';
ucfirst(strtolower($str));

Will output: String

answered Mar 04 '14 at 11:45

James Elliott

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score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 04 '14 at 11:49

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Just do

ucfirst(strtolower($string)); //Would output "Herman archer lives in new york"

Also if you wanted every word to start with a captial you could do

ucwords(strtolower($string)); //Would output "Herman Archer Lives In New York"

answered Mar 04 '14 at 11:49

Pattle

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 04 '14 at 11:47

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To make all chars of a string lowercase except the first, use:

echo $word[0] . strtolower(substr($word, 1));

answered Mar 04 '14 at 11:47

Robin Webdev

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score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Apr 25 '16 at 18:10

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Use mb_convert_case, but you have to create an equivalent to ucfirst:

<?php 

    function mb_ucfirst($string) {

         $string = mb_strtoupper(mb_substr($string, 0, 1)) . mb_substr($string, 1);
         return $string;
    }

    $string = 'hEllO wOrLD';        
    $string = mb_ucfirst(mb_convert_case($string, MB_CASE_LOWER));

    echo $string; // Prints: Hello world

?>

edited Apr 25 '16 at 18:10

Zanshin13

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answered Mar 04 '14 at 11:58

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(PHP) making string lowercase , with exception of first letter

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