Make First Letter of an Array Uppercase in Laravel

Question

I'm trying to retrieve strings from my database using Laravel Eloquent queries. However, the data I get is in full caps. I want only the first letter to be in uppercase. Can anybody help me out?

$main = DB::table('master_accountsmain')->get()

I'm passing the main to my views using...

return view('home', 'main' => $main);

I have tried using ucfirst($main), but it does not work. The data remains in uppercase.

`$main` is array not a string which will convert into lower case — Ayaz Ali Shah, Dec 04 '18 at 12:59
Yes I am having an issue with converting the array to have first letter with uppercase @AyazShah — jptl431, Dec 04 '18 at 13:00
ucfirst(strtolower($main[0]->property)) ? Main is an array of objects because you're using ->get(); if you were fetching just one with ->first() it would return an eloquent object. — thecoolestguyever123, Dec 04 '18 at 13:02
the $main looks like this $main = [ 'JOHN', 'DOE', 'GUIDE' ] @Jerodev — jptl431, Dec 04 '18 at 13:02
What version of Laravel are you on? This query should return a Collection. — Jerodev, Dec 04 '18 at 13:03
Thank you very much @luminoslty. It worked like a charm!! You could put your answer in the other part so I could give it a tick — jptl431, Dec 04 '18 at 13:03

thecoolestguyever123 · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-04T13:17:32.617

ucfirst(strtolower($main[0]->property)) is what you want to do.

$main is an array of objects because you're using ->get();

If you were fetching just one with ->first(); it would return an eloquent object and you would simply call ucfirst(strtolower($main->property))

If you have more than one result you could simply loop over or use fancy array functions builtin to php.

If it is an eloquent collection they have built in methods such as ->each() that allow you to map an array.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 04 '18 at 13:03

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You will have to change it in lower case first with strtolower() then your ucfirst will work fine. Try it as below in order to make it works.

ucfirst(strtolower($main));

answered Dec 04 '18 at 13:03

Jonathan Gagne

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 04 '18 at 13:05

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You can't ucfirst($array). You need to get the element of $array. Like

$fname = ucfirst(strtolower($array->fname));

edited Dec 04 '18 at 13:05

Gufran Hasan

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answered Dec 04 '18 at 13:05

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Make First Letter of an Array Uppercase in Laravel

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