How to convert PascalCase to pascal_case?

Question

If I had:

$string = \"PascalCase\";

I need

\"pascal_case\"

Does PHP offer a function for this purpose?

Answer 1

php does not offer a built in function for this afaik, but here is what I use

function uncamelize($camel,$splitter="_") {
    $camel=preg_replace('/(?!^)[[:upper:]][[:lower:]]/', '$0', preg_replace('/(?!^)[[:upper:]]+/', $splitter.'$0', $camel));
    return strtolower($camel);

}

the splitter can be specified in the function call, so you can call it like so

$camelized="thisStringIsCamelized";
echo uncamelize($camelized,"_");
//echoes "this_string_is_camelized"
echo uncamelize($camelized,"-");
//echoes "this-string-is-camelized"