mb_strtolower

mb_strtolower

Make a string lowercase

string **mb_strtolower** string $string  $encoding

Returns with all alphabetic characters converted to lowercase. string

string The being lowercased. string

encoding

with all alphabetic characters converted to lowercase.

string

Voorbeeld: example

<?php
$str = "Mary Had A Little Lamb and She LOVED It So";
$str = mb_strtolower($str);
echo $str; // Prints mary had a little lamb and she loved it so
?>

Voorbeeld: example with non-Latin UTF-8 text

<?php
$str = "Τάχιστη αλώπηξ βαφής ψημένη γη, δρασκελίζει υπέρ νωθρού κυνός";
$str = mb_strtolower($str, 'UTF-8');
echo $str; // Prints τάχιστη αλώπηξ βαφής ψημένη γη, δρασκελίζει υπέρ νωθρού κυνός
?>

By contrast to , 'alphabetic' is determined by the Unicode character properties. Thus the behaviour of this function is not affected by locale settings and it can convert any characters that have 'alphabetic' property, such as a-umlaut (ä). strtolower

For more information about the Unicode properties, please see . url.unicode.reports

mb_strtoupper``mb_convert_case``strtolower