How to convert string to `camelCase` in Laravel

The Camel case (sometimes stylized as camelCase also known as camel caps) is the practice of writing phrases without spaces or punctuation.

The separation of words starts with a single capitalized letter, and the first word starts with lower case. In other words, the first character of all words will be in the upper or capital case except the first word.

To better understand let us take some common examples includes

• “iPhone”
• “eBay”
• “personWeight”
• “statueHeight”
• “birthYear”
• “studentFirstName”
• “studentLastName”

Here the first character of the first word is in the lower case whereas the starting character of the next word is in the upper or capital case joined without any space or punctuation.

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In this article, we will see how to convert a given string to camelCase in Laravel.

The Laravel provides a static method named camel in the Str class that can be accessed as Str::camel.

Example for snake_case

use Illuminate\Support\Str;

// The value given to camel method is in snake_case
echo Str::camel('student_first_name');

// studentFirstName

Example for kebab-case

use Illuminate\Support\Str;

// The value given to camel method is in kebab-case
echo Str::camel('student-first-name');

// studentFirstName

Example for StudlyCase aka PascalCase

use Illuminate\Support\Str;

// The value given to camel method is in StudlyCase aka PascalCase
echo Str::camel('StudentFirstName');

// studentFirstName

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