PHP Functions for Words Formatting

PHP functions are used for text formatting. Formatting like uppercase, lowercase and first letter uppercase can also be done using php functions, here is the 5 php functions for words/text formatting

• ucwords
• strtoupper
• strtolower
• ucfirst
• lcfirst

ucwords()
Make each word’s first letter as capital letter

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$text = "freeze coders";

$text1 = ucwords($text); // Output -  Freeze Coders

strtoupper()

strtoupper php function will make all words as upper case(capital letter)

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$text = "freeze coders";

$text1 = strtoupper($text); // Output -  FREEZE CODERS

strtolower()

strtolower php function will make all words as lower case(capital letter)

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$text = " FREEZE CODERS";

$text1 = strtolower($text); // Output -  freeze coders

ucfirst()

ucfirst php function will make the first letter of a string as uppercase

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$text = "freeze coders";

$text1 = ucfirst($text); // Output -  Freeze coders

lcfirst()

lcfirst() php function will return the string’s first letter lowercase

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$text = " FREEZE CODERS";

$text1 = lcfirst($text); // Output -  fREEZE CODERS