iamcal/php-emoji

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1247 stars · 285 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A PHP library for converting emoji between various native formats (DoCoMo, KDDI, Softbank, Google) and a unified format, as well as rendering them as HTML. It is based on the emoji-data project and works with UTF-8 text.

Use cases

• convert emoji from japanese mobile carrier formats to unified unicode
• display emoji in html on a php website
• normalize emoji input from android and ios devices
• convert unified emoji back to carrier-specific formats for mobile delivery
• detect whether a string contains emoji
• round-trip emoji through a wysiwyg editor and back to storage

When to choose

• you need to handle legacy Japanese carrier emoji encodings in PHP
• you want to render emoji as HTML images with a CSS sprite
• you need a small, dependency-free PHP emoji conversion utility

When to avoid

• you need modern emoji parsing like shortcodes, skin tones, or emoji 15+ features
• your project is not in PHP
• you need JIS or Shift-JIS source data support

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

serialization internationalization web-development text-editors php emoji unicode mobile-emoji-conversion html-rendering localization web-server

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