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elvanto/litemoji
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A PHP library simplifying the conversion of unicode, HTML and shortcode emoji.

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LitEmoji 🔥
==========

[](#litemoji-)

A PHP library simplifying the conversion of unicode, HTML and shortcode emoji.

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Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
$ composer require elvanto/litemoji

```

Alternatively you can clone or download the library files.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
use LitEmoji\LitEmoji;

echo LitEmoji::encodeShortcode('Baby you light my 🔥! 😃');
// 'Baby you light my :fire:! :smiley:'

echo LitEmoji::encodeHtml('Baby you light my :fire:! :smiley:');
// 'Baby you light my 🔥! 😃'

echo LitEmoji::encodeUnicode('Baby you light my :fire:! :smiley:');
// 'Baby you light my 🔥! 😃'

echo LitEmoji::removeEmoji('Baby you light my 🔥! 😃!!!');
// 'Baby you light my ! !!!'
```

Configuration
=============

[](#configuration)

```
use LitEmoji\LitEmoji;

// Exclude specific shortcodes when converting from unicode and HTML entities
LitEmoji::config('excludeShortcodes', ['mobile', 'android']);

echo LitEmoji::encodeShortcode('📱');
// ':iphone:'

// Add aliases for custom shortcodes
LitEmoji::config('aliasShortcodes', ['yeah' => 'thumbsup']);
echo LitEmoji::encodeUnicode('Can do :yeah:!');
// 'Can do 👍!'
```

Encodings
=========

[](#encodings)

LitEmoji's various functions will do their best to detect the encoding of the provided text and should work on UTF-8 encoded strings without issue. In cases where the encoding cannot be detected, UTF-8 is assumed, however a second argument can be provided to any of the functions to hint the actual encoded of the provided string.

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

Pull requests are welcome. New code must be fully unit tested (the existing test suite can be run with PHPUnit).

License
-------

[](#license)

[MIT License](LICENSE)

###  Health Score

62

—

FairBetter than 99% of packages

Maintenance70

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity58

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community28

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity75

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 54% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~102 days

Recently: every ~209 days

Total

31

Last Release

308d ago

Major Versions

1.4.4 → 2.0.02019-07-15

2.0.4 → 3.0.02020-11-27

3.0.1 → 4.0.02020-11-27

4.3.0-alpha → 5.0.0-alpha2023-03-28

PHP version history (5 changes)1.0.0PHP >=5.4

2.0.0PHP >=5.6

3.0.0PHP >=7.0

4.0.0PHP >=7.3

5.0.0-alphaPHP >=7.4

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

emojiphpunicodeemojiphp-emoji

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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