Php function to decode UTF-16 Unicode to emoji

Question

I have tried many code snippets here at stackoverflow without success.

I am looking for a php function to convert -

"This is a smiley "%uD83D%uDE0B" 

to  

"This is a smiley "

Here is a working example of what I am trying to achieve.

Under: Decode/Unescape Unicode Entities

What format is `%u....` supposed to be? That's not one of the standard character escaping formats I recognise. — deceze, Jan 17 '18 at 15:22
Have a look at http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f60b/index.htm I cant find the format you're talking about. — Scriptman, Jan 17 '18 at 15:24
yes it is, I need a function to convert %uD83D%uDE0B > D83DDE0B > — Arsh Dhillon, Jan 17 '18 at 15:25

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 17 '18 at 15:39

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this may be one way to work around your %u syntax

$emoji = '%uD83D%uDE0B';
print 'This is my emoji: '. json_decode('"' . str_replace('%', '\\', $emoji) . '"');

answered Jan 17 '18 at 15:39

arhak

Thanks, this is exactly what I want, How can i have the output in variable ($str) instead of print ? – Arsh Dhillon Jan 17 '18 at 15:55
change `print '...';` to `$str = '...';` instead – arhak Jan 18 '18 at 02:33

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