How to make the first character of the word uppercase?

Question

Is there any function in PHP to make the first character of the word uppercase, or should I write it by regular expression?

Answer 1

Use the ucfirst function.

Answer 2

$word = ucfirst($word);

Answer 3

$firstlettersuppercased = ucwords($originalstring);

This will capitalize the first letter of every word in the $originalstring.