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ucfirst, short for 'Upper Case First', is a function which replaces the first letter of words in a string by their uppercase equivalent.

ucfirst (short for Upper Case First is a function for making a string's first character uppercase. For more details, see the PHP manual page.

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First character upper case and ignore few special characters in php

I am trying to dispaly upper case text to just the first character to be upper case in a phrase. If there are any special characters they have to be ignored. for example: SECTION 1: IDENTIFICATION OF THE SUBSTANCE/PREPARATION AND OF THE …
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array_push - befuddled with Zend test example

While studying for Zend test, I ran across this code which works, but I cannot figure out why given the two strange props in array_push. strtolower and ucfirst are used where there should be variables. Have I missed some documentation?
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ucfirst after comma separated value

I have the value like admin,bli I have used this code to make the first letter capital And my result is Admin,bli My expected output is Admin,Bli How can I achieve this without using explode function and a for loop?
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uppercase first letter of each words (utf8) in MySQL

EDIT: Adding CHARSET utf8 to input param and output make it works. i found this code snippet to convert first letter of every words to uppercase DELIMITER $$ CREATE FUNCTION CAP_FIRST (INPUT VARCHAR(255) CHARSET utf8) RETURNS VARCHAR(255) CHARSET…
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how to uppercase only first in zend form inputs?

I am working with Zend Form, and on the edit i want the values to be like ucfirst(values) ;. I found filters 'filters' => array('StringToUpper') but they work on the hole input. Any idea ? Thanks
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echo ucfirst tag name

on my website I want to display all tags associated with a post. here is my code :
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Making the first letter of every sentence upper case using ucfirst

I'm trying to make the first letter of every sentence to be upper case while keeping the punctuation marks. I have tried ucfirst, but it only makes the first letter of the string uppercase, and not every other sentences. How do I fix this? $text =…
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ucfirst() not working properly with scandinavic characters

How to get ucfirst() working with scandinavic characters? $str = "SÄKYLÄ"; echo ucfirst(strtolower($str)); //prints SÄkylÄ One possibility is use mb_convert_case() but I'd like to know if this is possible using ucfirst() $str = "SÄKYLÄ"; echo…
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why the php ucfirst error, why?

@see: (on mac os): developer:php $ php -v PHP 5.5.24 (cli) (built: Apr 27 2015 11:18:18) Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies developer:php $ php -r "echo ucfirst('the test') .…
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Changing to first upper case letter when the first character is a number

I've done this in the past but no longer have what I wrote and can't remember how I did it previously. In correcting some user input, say "THIS IS AN ITEM" to "This is an item", I of course use ucfirst(strtolower($text)) however it's no use when…
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majuscle to the first character of the custom post title on wordpress

I try to capitalize the first character of a custom post title on wordpress I found this solution here: uppercase issue for title in wordpress here is the code : it…
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Regex in PHP to find last upcase char from the Camel Case

I want to match in PHP the last capitalize (http://php.net/manual/en/function.ucfirst.php) character in the string. To add to the complication I want to ignore everything after a different string, e.g. a sequence of uppercases that not capitalized…
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Using ucfirst() function in php 5.3 returning a parse error

I'm trying to add a ucfirst() function in my codeigniter controller so I'll get back a string with a first upper case letter. For some reason I keep getting a parse error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '(', expecting ',' or ';' in ... on…
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More than one function on one variable

I want to write something in the database, but before I want to delete all spaces in the string and upper the first letter. That's how I wanted to do it but it doesnt work :P //INITIALIZATION OF VARIABLE $perfectFirstname $perfectFirstname =…
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Capitalize first letter in

$item = 'some goes
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can be placed some words, and then more can exist'; How do I capitalize the first letter of the first word inside ... only?
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