# ucfirst

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

ucfirst — Make a string's first character uppercase

### Description

string ucfirst ( string `$str` )

Returns a string with the first character of `str` capitalized, if that character is alphabetic.

Note that 'alphabetic' is determined by the current locale. For instance, in the default "C" locale characters such as umlaut-a (ä) will not be converted.

### Parameters

`str`

  The input string.

### Return Values

Returns the resulting string.

### Examples

Example#1 ucfirst() example

`<?php
$foo = 'hello world!';
$foo = ucfirst($foo); // Hello world!
$bar = 'HELLO WORLD!';
$bar = ucfirst($bar); // HELLO WORLD!
$bar = ucfirst(strtolower($bar)); // Hello world!
?>`

### See Also

- strtolower()
- strtoupper()
- ucwords()