How to capitalize first letter of first word in a sentence?

by 
$output = preg_replace('/([.!?])\s*(\w)/e', "strtoupper('\\1 \\2')", ucfirst(strtolower($input)));

Since the modifier e is deprecated in PHP 5.5.0:

$output = preg_replace_callback('/([.!?])\s*(\w)/', function ($matches) {
    return strtoupper($matches[1] . ' ' . $matches[2]);
}, ucfirst(strtolower($input)));

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