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JeffP
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8 years ago
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Need to remove emoji from textarea

Hello all I'm having trouble finding a recent library to remove emojis while either being input to a text area or just to remove it on the server side. What libraries are you folks using to keep your apps from storing emojis?

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JeffP
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8 years ago
Level 3

The first function seemed to work, sorry I could have sworn that I had tried it already. Thank you

function remove_emoji($text){
      return preg_replace('/([0-9|#][\x{20E3}])|[\x{00ae}|\x{00a9}|\x{203C}|\x{2047}|\x{2048}|\x{2049}|\x{3030}|\x{303D}|\x{2139}|\x{2122}|\x{3297}|\x{3299}][\x{FE00}-\x{FEFF}]?|[\x{2190}-\x{21FF}][\x{FE00}-\x{FEFF}]?|[\x{2300}-\x{23FF}][\x{FE00}-\x{FEFF}]?|[\x{2460}-\x{24FF}][\x{FE00}-\x{FEFF}]?|[\x{25A0}-\x{25FF}][\x{FE00}-\x{FEFF}]?|[\x{2600}-\x{27BF}][\x{FE00}-\x{FEFF}]?|[\x{2900}-\x{297F}][\x{FE00}-\x{FEFF}]?|[\x{2B00}-\x{2BF0}][\x{FE00}-\x{FEFF}]?|[\x{1F000}-\x{1F6FF}][\x{FE00}-\x{FEFF}]?/u', '', $text);
}

echo remove_emoji('Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. ???????????');
//Output: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.

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