mb_strtolower
(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5)
mb_strtolower — Make a string lowercase
Description
string mb_strtolower
( string $str
[, string $encoding
] )
Parameters
-
str
-
The string being lowercased.
-
encoding
-
The encoding
parameter 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 lowercase.
Unicode
For more information about the Unicode properties, please see » http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr21/.
By contrast to strtolower(), '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_strtolower() 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
?>