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<h1 class="refname">lcfirst</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">lcfirst</span> — <span class="dc-title">Make a string's first character lowercase</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>lcfirst</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$str</code></span>
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<p class="para rdfs-comment">
Returns a string with the first character of
<em><code class="parameter">str</code></em> , lowercased if that character is
alphabetic.
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Note that 'alphabetic' is determined by the current locale. For
instance, in the default "C" locale characters such as umlaut-a
(รค) will not be converted.
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<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.lcfirst-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
<p class="para">
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">str</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
The input string.
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<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.lcfirst-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
Returns the resulting string.
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<div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-function.lcfirst-examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>lcfirst()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$foo </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'HelloWorld'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$foo </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">lcfirst</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$foo</span><span style="color: #007700">); </span><span style="color: #FF8000">// helloWorld<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$bar </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'HELLO WORLD!'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$bar </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">lcfirst</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$bar</span><span style="color: #007700">); </span><span style="color: #FF8000">// hELLO WORLD!<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$bar </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">lcfirst</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">strtoupper</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$bar</span><span style="color: #007700">)); </span><span style="color: #FF8000">// hELLO WORLD!<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.lcfirst-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.ucfirst.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">ucfirst()</a> - Make a string's first character uppercase</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.strtolower.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">strtolower()</a> - Make a string lowercase</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.strtoupper.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">strtoupper()</a> - Make a string uppercase</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.ucwords.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">ucwords()</a> - Uppercase the first character of each word in a string</span></li>
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