Uppercase first letter and rest lower

Question

Ive been looking around for a way in PHP to have a string converted, so that the first letter becomes uppercase and the rest lower case.

At the moment I am doing what I believe is the standard way:

ucfirst(strtolower($string));

But I have found that some programming languages (ie. tcl) can do it with one cammand:

totitle

Is there a way to do this in PHP? It's not a problem as such, I'm just a curios dude :D

Thanks

Answer 1

function totitle($string){
  return ucfirst(strtolower($string));
}

And voila :)

Answer 2

You should go like this

<?php
$string= 'HELLO WORLD';
$string = strtolower($string);
$string = ucfirst($string);
?>

Answer 3

"Title" casing capitalizes each word in a string (i.e. every letter following white space). Your approach would result in "Gone with the wind," whereas title casing would yield "Gone With The Wind".

I wouldn't worry about it: what you're doing is simple and intuitive, and if it gets you what you want, there's not any intrinsic functions that do the same thing.

Answer 4

You can create such function yourself.

Do not forget that you should use mb_* functions for data that was input by user. English is not the only language people use. Look at this question: ucfirst() function for multibyte character encodings