fatindeed/emoji-helper

Emoji helper is a tool for you to escape emoji characters.

1.0.0 2020-01-13 05:44 UTC

Requires

• php: ^5.6 || ^7.0

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ^5.0 || ^6.0 || ^7.0 || ^8.0

MIT

• James Zhu

• middleware
• emoji
• laravel
• lumen

README

Emoji helper is a tool for you to escape emoji characters.

Why to escape emoji characters

For MySQL databases which use utf8 charset, it will occur a error when you insert emoji charactes.

Suggestion

You shoud try to change database charset to utf8mb4 first. If you can't, then use this class temporary.

Usage

1. Require libaray in composer.

   composer require fatindeed/emoji-helper

2. With Laravel or Lumen.

   Register Fatindeed\EmojiHelper\Http\Middleware\RemoveEmojiCharacters to your middleware list.

   For Laravel

   For Lumen

3. Without Laravel.

   use Fatindeed\EmojiHelper\EmojiHelper;
   // code...
   $sqlSafeString = EmojiHelper::filter($originalString);