{"id":584,"date":"2012-09-27T19:39:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T19:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/?p=584"},"modified":"2025-03-10T18:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T18:26:13","slug":"format-strings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/php\/strings\/format-strings","title":{"rendered":"Using Strings-Formatting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Text Formatting<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trim leading and trailing whitespace<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$MyString = trim($MyString);<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Capitalise 1st letter of first word<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$MyString = strtolower($MyString);\n$MyString = ucfirst($MyString);<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Capitalise 1st letter of every word (but leave capitalised words like &#8220;ABC&#8221; as they are)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$MyString = ucwords($MyString);<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">String to lowercase<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$MyString = strtolower($MyString);<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">String to uppercase<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$MyString = strtoupper($MyString);<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Convert \\n character to &lt;br&gt; when displaying as normal php text<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$MyString = nl2br($MyString);<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text Formatting Trim leading and trailing whitespace Capitalise 1st letter of first word Capitalise 1st letter of every word (but leave capitalised words like &#8220;ABC&#8221; as they are) String to lowercase String to uppercase Convert \\n character to &lt;br&gt; when displaying as normal php text<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4758,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/4758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}