lcfirst – PHP String Functions

Syntax :

Description :

lcfirst() function will take string as input and converts its first letter to lowercase letter, if that character is alphabetic. In general language, its name implies LC = lower Case first letter in a string.

Parameter :

• string – This is a Required parameter. This is a string on which function will be performed.

Output :

This will return a string with first letter converted to lowercase.

Related articles :

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Version, Description
ucwords,first letter of every word in a string to uppercase letter
strtolower,converts all letter of a string to lowercase letter
strtoupper,converts all letter of a string to uppercase letter
ucfirst,converts first letter of a string to uppercase letter

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lcfirst() – PHP Functions Example 1 :

<?php
$strExample = "An example of a lcfirst() function.";
echo lcfirst($strExample);
?>

In above example ,We have a string ‘An example of a lcfirst() function’. Now this function will converts first letter in a string to lowercase. See below is the output of above code.

lcfirst() – PHP Functions Example 2 :

<?php
$strExample = "1. This is an example of lcfirst() function with numbers.";
echo ucfirst($strExample);
?>

In above example ,We have a string ‘1. This is an example of lcfirst() function with numbers.’. Now this function will converts every letter in a word to lowercase, it will not do anything with numeric values. See below is the output of above code.