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

$str = 'FooBarBaz';

return strtolower(preg_replace('~(?<=\\w)([A-Z])~', '_$1', $str)); // foo_bar_baz

Answer 2

The Symfony Serializer Component has a CamelCaseToSnakeCaseNameConverter that has two methods normalize() and denormalize(). These can be used as follows:

$nameConverter = new CamelCaseToSnakeCaseNameConverter();

echo $nameConverter->normalize('camelCase');
// outputs: camel_case

echo $nameConverter->denormalize('snake_case');
// outputs: snakeCase

Answer 3

This is one of shorter ways:

function camel_to_snake($input)
{
    return strtolower(ltrim(preg_replace('/([A-Z])/', '_\\1', $input), '_'));
}

Answer 4

"CamelCase" to "camel_case":

function camelToSnake($camel)
{
    $snake = preg_replace('/[A-Z]/', '_$0', $camel);
    $snake = strtolower($snake);
    $snake = ltrim($snake, '_');
    return $snake;
}

or:

function camelToSnake($camel)
{
    $snake = preg_replace_callback('/[A-Z]/', function ($match){
        return '_' . strtolower($match[0]);
    }, $camel);
    return ltrim($snake, '_');
}

Answer 5

The open source TurboCommons library contains a general purpose formatCase() method inside the StringUtils class, which lets you convert a string to lots of common case formats, like CamelCase, UpperCamelCase, LowerCamelCase, snake_case, Title Case, and many more.

https://github.com/edertone/TurboCommons

To use it, import the phar file to your project and:

use org\turbocommons\src\main\php\utils\StringUtils;

echo StringUtils::formatCase('camelCase', StringUtils::FORMAT_SNAKE_CASE);

// will output 'camel_Case'

Answer 6

How to de-camelize without using regex:

function decamelize($str, $glue = '_') {
    $capitals = [];
    $replace  = [];

    foreach(str_split($str) as $index => $char) {
        if(!ctype_upper($char)) {
            continue;
        }

        $capitals[] = $char;
        $replace[]  = ($index > 0 ? $glue : '') . strtolower($char);
    }

    if(count($capitals) > 0) {
        return str_replace($capitals, $replace, $str);
    }

    return $str;
}

An edit:

How would I do that in 2019:

function toSnakeCase($str, $glue = '_') {
    return preg_replace_callback('/[A-Z]/', function ($matches) use ($glue) {
        return $glue . strtolower($matches[0]);
    }, $str);
}

And when PHP 7.4 will be released:

function toSnakeCase($str, $glue = '_') {
    return preg_replace_callback('/[A-Z]/', fn($matches) => $glue . strtolower($matches[0]), $str);
}