Php/docs/function.mb-strtoupper
mb_strtoupper
(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5, PHP 7)
mb_strtoupper — Make a string uppercase
Description
mb_strtoupper
( string $str
[, string $encoding = mb_internal_encoding()
] ) : string
Returns str
with all alphabetic characters converted to uppercase.
Parameters
str- The string being uppercased.
encoding- The
encodingparameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted, the internal character encoding value will be used.
Return Values
str with all alphabetic characters converted to uppercase.
Unicode
For more information about the Unicode properties, please see » http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr21/.
By contrast to strtoupper(), 'alphabetic' is determined by the Unicode character properties. Thus the behaviour of this function is not affected by locale settings and it can convert any characters that have 'alphabetic' property, such as a-umlaut (ä).
Examples
Example #1 mb_strtoupper() example
<?php$str = "Mary Had A Little Lamb and She LOVED It So";$str = mb_strtoupper($str);echo $str; // Prints MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB AND SHE LOVED IT SO?>
Example #2 mb_strtoupper() example with non-Latin UTF-8 text
<?php$str = "Τάχιστη αλώπηξ βαφής ψημένη γη, δρασκελίζει υπέρ νωθρού κυνός";$str = mb_strtoupper($str, 'UTF-8');echo $str; // Prints ΤΆΧΙΣΤΗ ΑΛΏΠΗΞ ΒΑΦΉΣ ΨΗΜΈΝΗ ΓΗ, ΔΡΑΣΚΕΛΊΖΕΙ ΥΠΈΡ ΝΩΘΡΟΎ ΚΥΝΌΣ?>
See Also
- mb_strtolower() - Make a string lowercase
- mb_convert_case() - Perform case folding on a string
- strtoupper() - Make a string uppercase
