How to lower exploded text and increase first letter?

[toplisek]

I have code like:
foreach($var as $i=>$element) {
$var[$i] = ucfirst($element);
}

Issue is that exploded text is all the time CAPS like
TEXT

When I try to ucfirst it will be not Text as all are CAPS.

PHP:
Returns a string with the first character of str capitalized, if that character is alphabetic.


If I try $var[$i] = mb_strtolower($element); it will be all lower.

How to set in one line mb_strtolower and the first character capitalized like Text?

[mbabuskov]

Combine both functions: ucfirst(strtolower($element))

For Unicode version use mb_convert_case(mb_strtolower($str), MB_CASE_TITLE)

[Gibisan]

Is this what you want:

ucfirst(strtolower($element))

[toplisek]

ucfirst(strtolower($element)) will not other elements increase first letter and does not support UTF.
First element is correct.

How to do in both case?

[mbabuskov]

See my reply above. mb_convert_case supports UTF-8

[toplisek]

I have tested many possibilities.

It works $var[$i] = mb_convert_case(mb_strtolower($element), MB_CASE_TITLE);

But still is issue UTF-8 encoding. How to work some special characters like č.
It shows me �

I worked some other function mb_strtolower($variable, 'UTF-8'))

How to set UTF-8 inside:
$var[$i] = mb_convert_case(mb_strtolower($element), MB_CASE_TITLE);

[mbabuskov]

$var[$i] = mb_convert_case(mb_strtolower($element, 'UTF-8'), MB_CASE_TITLE, 'UTF-8');

[toplisek]

You are right. Thanks.
It works: $var[$i] = mb_convert_case(mb_strtolower($element, 'UTF-8'), MB_CASE_TITLE, 'UTF-8');

I have last issue. Each array values consist of two-three words like
WORLD1 WORLD2

One array: WORLD1 WORLD1
It will return your script the following inside ONE array:
World1 World2

I like to make
World1 world1

It seems to modify ALL words to CAPS for the first letter.
I like to make the first world just first word. But as usual next array in the same change :World2 world2

[Matthew1980]

Hello everyone,

I'm tired so may have missed the point here a little, but surely this [uk2.php.net] would be the function to use.

Handy to have this when manipulating text submitted by a user...

Cheers,
MRb

[coopster]

It seems to modify ALL words to CAPS for the first letter.

If you want ONLY the first word in the entire array you could either flatten the string again after your loop and apply the uppercase ...

foreach($var as $i=>$element) { 
  mb_convert_case($var[$i], MB_CASE_TITLE, 'UTF-8'); 
} 
$var = mb_convert_case(implode(' ', $var), MB_CASE_TITLE, 'UTF-8'); 

... or check within the loop if it is the first array element and apply the uppercase to just that index value:

foreach($var as $i=>$element) { 
  $var[$i] = mb_strtolower($element, 'UTF-8'); 
  if (!i) { 
    $var[$i] = mb_convert_case($var[$i], MB_CASE_TITLE, 'UTF-8'); 
  } 
}