How to remove all emoji from a string - php

Question

How to delete all emoji in the next line?

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. 🇬🇧🍁🍃🍂🌰🍁🌿🌾🌼🌻

Answer 1

That should do the trick,

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. 

Answer 2

You can use preg_replace to remove non-ASCII characters from a string. For example:

 echo preg_replace('/[[:^print:]]/', '', "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. 🇬🇧🍁🍃🍂🌰🍁🌿🌾🌼🌻"); 

will return:

 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.