<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >ucwords</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="String functions" HREF="ref.strings.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="ucfirst" HREF="function.ucfirst.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="vprintf" HREF="function.vprintf.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.ucfirst.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.vprintf.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.ucwords" ></A >ucwords</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN91927" ></A ><P > (PHP 3>= 3.0.3, PHP 4 )</P >ucwords -- Uppercase the first character of each word in a string </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN91930" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >ucwords</B > ( string str)<BR ></BR ><P > Returns a string with the first character of each word in <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >str</I ></TT > capitalized, if that character is alphabetic. <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN91940" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >ucwords()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >$foo = 'hello world!'; $foo = ucwords($foo); // Hello World! $bar = 'HELLO WORLD!'; $bar = ucwords($bar); // HELLO WORLD! $bar = ucwords(strtolower($bar)); // Hello World!</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > <DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > The definition of a word is any string of characters that is immediately after a whitespace (These are: space, form-feed, newline, carriage return, horizontal tab, and vertical tab). </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.strtoupper.html" ><B CLASS="function" >strtoupper()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.strtolower.html" ><B CLASS="function" >strtolower()</B ></A > and <A HREF="function.ucfirst.html" ><B CLASS="function" >ucfirst()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.ucfirst.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.vprintf.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >ucfirst</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.strings.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >vprintf</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >