(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0)
lcfirst — Make a string's first character lowercase
Returns a string with the first character of str , 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.
The 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!
?>