John Davidson

Message:

I use this preg replace to remove all emojis in a string:

$data['message'] = 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", "", $data['message']); 

This works very well but I dont want to remove them. Instead I have to replace them with a bbcode. That means every emojis in a string should replaced with a own bbcode.

Example:

U+1F600

becomes

[emoji]1f600[/emoji]

or

U+1F603

becomes

[emoji]1f603[/emoji]

Is this possible? Thank you very much.

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My Answer:
'/[\x{1F600}-\x{1F64F}]/u', '', $data['message']);

This code uses a regular expression to match emojis in the range of U+1F600 to U+1F64F and replaces them with an empty string. You can adjust the range to include more emojis if needed.