Convert Dashes to CamelCase in PHP

Question

Can someone help me complete this PHP function? I want to take a string like this: \'this-is-a-string\' and convert it to this: \'thisIsAString\':

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Answer 1

this is my variation on how to deal with it. Here I have two functions, first one camelCase turns anything into a camelCase and it wont mess if variable already contains cameCase. Second uncamelCase turns camelCase into underscore (great feature when dealing with database keys).

function camelCase($str) {
    $i = array("-","_");
    $str = preg_replace('/([a-z])([A-Z])/', "\\1 \\2", $str);
    $str = preg_replace('@[^a-zA-Z0-9\-_ ]+@', '', $str);
    $str = str_replace($i, ' ', $str);
    $str = str_replace(' ', '', ucwords(strtolower($str)));
    $str = strtolower(substr($str,0,1)).substr($str,1);
    return $str;
}
function uncamelCase($str) {
    $str = preg_replace('/([a-z])([A-Z])/', "\\1_\\2", $str);
    $str = strtolower($str);
    return $str;
}

lets test both:

$camel = camelCase("James_LIKES-camelCase");
$uncamel = uncamelCase($camel);
echo $camel." ".$uncamel;