Emoji Detecting and Processing

Unicode version: 15.0.

Installation

Install this library using the Composer require command:

composer require maximal/emoji '^1.0'

or add the package name to the require section of your composer.json file:

"require": {
	"maximal/emoji": "^1.0"
}

and then run:

composer update

Then include Composer autoload anywhere in your code:

require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

Usage

use Maximal\Emoji\Detector;

// Whether the given string contains emoji characters
$isEmojiFound = Detector::containsEmoji($string);
// 'test' -> false
// 'test 👍' -> true

// Whether the given string consists of emoji characters only
$isEmojiOnly = Detector::onlyEmoji($string);
// 'test 👍' -> false
// '👍😘' -> true

// String without any emoji character
$stringWithoutEmoji = Detector::removeEmoji($string);
// 'test 👍' -> 'test '
// '👍😘' -> ''

// All emojis of the string
$allEmojis = Detector::allEmojis($string);
// 'test 👍' -> ['👍']
// '👍😘' -> ['👍', '😘']

// Starting emojis of the string
$startingEmojis = Detector::startingEmojis($string);
// '👍😘 test' -> ['👍', '😘']
// 'test 👍' -> []

containsEmoji($string): bool

Detects whether the given string contains one or more emoji characters.

onlyEmoji($string, $ignoreWhitespace = true): bool

Detects whether the given string consists of emoji characters only.

This method ignores any spaces, tabs and other whitespace characters (\s). Pass false to the second parameter for not ignoring whitespace characters.

removeEmoji($string): string

Returns the given string with all emoji characters removed.

allEmojis($string): array

Returns an array of all emojis of the input string.

startingEmojis($string, $ignoreWhitespace = true): array

Returns an array of starting emojis of the input string.

This method ignores any spaces, tabs and other whitespace characters (\s). Pass false to the second parameter for not ignoring whitespace characters.

Tests

Run simple tests:

php test/tests.php

Expected output:

Tests total:  119
        run:  119
  succeeded:  119
     failed:  0

Contact the author

• Website: https://maximals.ru (Russian)
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/almaximal
• Telegram: https://t.me/maximal
• Sijeko Company: https://sijeko.ru (web, mobile, desktop applications development and graphic design)
• Personal GitHub: https://github.com/maximal
• Company’s GitHub: https://github.com/sijeko