LaravelEmoji-integrates Emoji in Laravel applications

LaravelEmoji-integrates Emoji in Laravel applications 1. Introduction

Today, as social networks are so developed, Emoji forms are everywhere, including QQ, Weibo, and forums. As a developer, you may need to provide a variety of expressions in the application for users to comment and communicate.

PHP 5 supports converting Unicode strings to emoticon, but is complicated:

     
PHP 7 provides better support for Unicode strings, so we can display the emoticon more conveniently:
    
      
Of course, this encoding is unfriendly. we need to use a more readable way to display the expression. Fortunately, in Laravel, we can achieve this through the Laravel Emoji extension package.
     2. Installation     
System requirements: PHP 5.4 +/HHVM 3.3 +, Composer
    
To install Laravel Emoji of the latest version, declare the following dependencies in composer. json:
    
"unicodeveloper/laravel-emoji": "1.0.*"
    
Then run composer install or composer update to download and install the extension package.
    
After the installation is complete, you need to register the service provider. in the configuration file app. php, add the following code to the providers array:
    
Unicodeveloper\Emoji\EmojiServiceProvider::class
    
At the same time, do not forget to register the facade to the aliases array:
    
'aliases' => [        ...        'Emoji' => Unicodeveloper\Emoji\Facades\Emoji::class,    ...]
     3. use     
Laravel Emoji provides us with a variety of ways to display emojis, and then calls them through the Emoji facade in a unified manner:
    
       
For more Emoji expressions, see the complete list of Emoji expressions.