How to make first letter of a word capital?

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I have a word default and I want a php function to make only first letter capital. Can we do that. Please help me out as I am very new to php coding.

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You should try some searching on the web, because if you would searched for it on the Google you would have been got a correct answer in first place. Just keep this in mind first search and if not get the correct answer then ask. — Jack Billy, Apr 04 '11 at 09:06

score 17 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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You may want to use ucfirst().

For multibyte strings, please see this snippet.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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answered Apr 04 '11 at 08:56

fabrik

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Thanks fabrik! This worked in first place and I think I will not be a beginner for any longer! Thanks again! – Apr 04 '11 at 09:00

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 04 '11 at 08:57

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ucfirst capitalizes the first letter in a string.

ucwords capitalizes every word in a string.

answered Apr 04 '11 at 08:57

Philip

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 04 '11 at 08:58

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Hello Geeta you can simply use ucwords() php function to make every first letter of your word Upper Cased!

Hope this would help!

answered Apr 04 '11 at 08:58

Jack Billy

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Well, actually this answer it's not so good. Why use `ucwords()` when you only need `ucfirst()`. Fabrik's answer is right on. – Bogdan Constantinescu Apr 05 '11 at 06:14
Ok. As you say Bogdan Constantinescu. – Apr 05 '11 at 10:34

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 04 '11 at 08:59

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I think that http://se2.php.net/manual/en/function.ucwords.php is the best function here :)

answered Apr 04 '11 at 08:59

Etu

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score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Jun 20 '12 at 03:31

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This is the code you need:

<?php

$string = 'stackoverflow';
$string = ucfirst($string);
echo $string;

?>

edited Jun 20 '12 at 03:31

Erre Efe

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answered Aug 28 '11 at 17:08

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