# iamcal/php-emoji

A PHP Emoji conversion library

Repository: https://github.com/iamcal/php-emoji
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/php-emoji
Language: PHP
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-11-07T03:23:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5859, "days_push": 1030, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1247, forks 285 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:07.600568+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: serialization, internationalization
- domain: web-development, text-editors
- platform: php
- tags: emoji, unicode, mobile-emoji-conversion, html-rendering, localization, web-server

## Member repositories
- iamcal/php-emoji (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:07.600568+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T05:07:57.588227+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/iamcal/php-emoji (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:07.600568+00:00, sha 06ef72cbcaf6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.