Developers normally use functions that use Regular Expression to convert under_scored strings in to CamelCased strings. Usage of Regular Expression is quite heavy. We can use a simple yet powerful method to convert these strings to CamelCase without using RegEx in PHP.
Here is the method:
echo join(””, array_map(“ucwords”, explode(‘_’, $under_scored)));
This combination of functions, first explodes the underscored string in to an array containing sub strings formed by “_” delimiter and applies ucwords() function to each member of the array. ucwords() uppercases the first character of the string. These uppercased strings are again joined back to form a single string which is the CamelCased version of the actual string.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
If you want the first word to be ignored you can use a function like this:
function under2camel($string) {
$words = explode(‘_’, $string);
$first = array_shift($words);
foreach ($words as &$val) $val = ucwords($val);
return $first . implode(”, $words);
}
echo under2camel(‘underscored_function_name’);
Wonderful! Thanks Sverri!
Regards,
Anees