# strtolower

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

strtolower — Make a string lowercase

### Description

strtolower ( string `$string` ) : string

Returns `string` with all alphabetic characters converted to lowercase.

Note that 'alphabetic' is determined by the current locale. This means that e.g. in the default "C" locale, characters such as umlaut-A (Ä) will not be converted.

### Parameters

`string`

  The input string.

### Return Values

Returns the lowercased string.

### Examples

Example #1 strtolower() example

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

### Notes

> Note: This function is binary-safe.

### See Also

- strtoupper() - Make a string uppercase
- ucfirst() - Make a string's first character uppercase
- ucwords() - Uppercase the first character of each word in a string
- mb_strtolower() - Make a string lowercase