Make a string lowercase

# strtolower

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

strtolower — Make a string lowercase

### Description

strtolower(string `$string`): string

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

Bytes in the range `"A"` (0x41) to `"Z"` (0x5a) will be converted to the corresponding lowercase letter by adding 32 to each byte value.

This can be used to convert ASCII characters within strings encoded with UTF-8, since multibyte UTF-8 characters will be ignored. To convert multibyte non-ASCII characters, use mb_strtolower().

### Parameters

`string`

  The input string.

### Return Values

Returns the lowercased string.

### Changelog

Version | Description
--- | ---
8.2.0 | Case conversion no longer depends on the locale set with setlocale(). Only ASCII characters will be converted.

### 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

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