The lcfirst Function
The lcfirst
function converts the first
character of a string to lowercase.
Works correctly only with Latin characters (single-byte characters).
Syntax
lcfirst(string $string): string
Example
Let's convert the first character of a string to lowercase:
<?php
echo lcfirst('Abcde');
?>
Code execution result:
'abcde'
See Also
-
the
ucfirst
function,
which converts the first character to uppercase -
the
strtoupper
function,
which converts a string to lowercase -
the
strtolower
function,
which converts a string to uppercase -
the
ucwords
function,
which converts the first letters of words to uppercase