(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)
lcfirst — Make a string's first character lowercase
$string): string
Returns a string with the first character of
string lowercased if that character is
alphabetic.
Note that 'alphabetic' is determined by the current locale. For instance, in the default "C" locale characters such as umlaut-a (ä) will not be converted.
stringThe input string.
Returns the resulting string.
Example #1 lcfirst() example
<?php
$foo = 'HelloWorld';
$foo = lcfirst($foo); // helloWorld
$bar = 'HELLO WORLD!';
$bar = lcfirst($bar); // hELLO WORLD!
$bar = lcfirst(strtoupper($bar)); // hELLO WORLD!
?>