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IntlChar::tolower

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(PHP 7, PHP 8)

Make Unicode character lowercase

Description

IntlChar::tolower(int|string $codepoint): int|string|null

The given character is mapped to its lowercase equivalent. If the character has no lowercase equivalent, the original character itself is returned.

Parameters

codepoint

Parameter

Return Values

Returns the Simple_Lowercase_Mapping of the code point, if any; otherwise the code point itself. Returns null on failure.

Return

Examples

Example

php
<?php
var_dump(IntlChar::tolower("A"));
var_dump(IntlChar::tolower("a"));
var_dump(IntlChar::tolower("Φ"));
var_dump(IntlChar::tolower("φ"));
var_dump(IntlChar::tolower("1"));
var_dump(IntlChar::tolower(ord("A")));
var_dump(IntlChar::tolower(ord("a")));
?>

The above example will output:

output
string(1) "a"
string(1) "a"
string(2) "φ"
string(2) "φ"
string(1) "1"
int(97)
int(97)

See Also

Source: reference/intl/intlchar/tolower.xml · from the official PHP manual (php/doc-en)