ucwords
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
ucwords — Uppercase the first character of each word in a string
Description
ucwords(string $string, string $separators = " \t\r\n\f\v"): string
Returns a string with the first character of each word in string capitalized, if that character is alphabetic.
For this function, a word is a string of characters that are not listed in the separators parameter. By default, these are: space, horizontal tab, carriage return, newline, form-feed and vertical tab.
Parameters
-
string -
The input string.
-
separators -
The optional
separatorscontains the word separator characters.
Return Values
Returns the modified string.
Examples
Example #1 ucwords() example
<?php $foo = 'hello world!'; $foo = ucwords($foo); // Hello World! $bar = 'HELLO WORLD!'; $bar = ucwords($bar); // HELLO WORLD! $bar = ucwords(strtolower($bar)); // Hello World! ?>
Example #2 ucwords() example with custom delimiter
<?php $foo = 'hello|world!'; $bar = ucwords($foo); // Hello|world! $baz = ucwords($foo, "|"); // Hello|World! ?>
Example #3 ucwords() example with additional delimiters
<?php $foo = "mike o'hara"; $bar = ucwords($foo); // Mike O'hara $baz = ucwords($foo, " \t\r\n\f\v'"); // Mike O'Hara ?>
Notes
Note: This function is locale-aware and will handle input according to the currently set locale. However, it only works on single-byte character sets. If you need to use multibyte characters (most non-western-European languages) look at the multibyte or intl extensions instead.
Note: This function is binary-safe.
See Also
- strtoupper() - Make a string uppercase
- strtolower() - Make a string lowercase
- ucfirst() - Make a string's first character uppercase
- mb_convert_case() - Perform case folding on a string
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https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ucwords.php
