A better way to replace emoticons in PHP?

Question

Right now I am using this function for emoticons:

function emoticons($text) {
        $icons = array(
                \':)\'    =>  \'

        

Answer 1

I'd recommend two libraries:

Emojify: https://github.com/HallgrenNetworks/emojify

PHP Emoji: https://github.com/iamcal/php-emoji

These will deal with these cases for you.