lithium\util\Inflector::camelize PHP Method

    public static function camelize($word, $cased = true)
    {
        $_word = $word;
        if (isset(static::$_camelized[$_word]) && $cased) {
            return static::$_camelized[$_word];
        }
        $word = str_replace(" ", "", ucwords(str_replace(array("_", '-'), " ", $word)));
        if (!$cased) {
            return lcfirst($word);
        }
        return static::$_camelized[$_word] = $word;
    }

 public function describe($entity, array $meta = array())
 {
     $var = "_" . Inflector::camelize($entity, false);
     if ($this->{$var}) {
         return $this->{$var};
     }
     return array();
 }