PHP ucwords utf-8 – Uppercase the first character of each word

ucwords function returns a string with the first character of each word in str capitalized, if that character is alphabetic.

For example, ucwords(“4 rapid development”); will return “4 Rapid Development” string.

However, if you’re working with UTF-8 string, use a function as below:

1. Uppercase the first character of each word with UTF-8 function

[php] <?php
function mb_ucwords($str) {
$str = mb_convert_case($str, MB_CASE_TITLE, "UTF-8");
return ($str);
}
?>
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2. Usage

[php] <?php
echo mb_ucwords("việt nam hồ chí minh");
//Việt Nam Hồ Chí Minh
?>
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