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Bhaskar Choudhary
Bhaskar Choudhary

Reputation: 159

PHP substr breaks emoji

I need to get only 30 characters from the paragraph submitted by user. In case the 30th character is an emoji, the output shows question marks. How can I avoid breaking the emojis?

echo substr("Hello world Hello world Hell😄 ", 0, 30);

Output: Hello world Hello world Hell��

Also, when using json_encode to return the output, the output is blank.

$myvariable = array();
$myvariable['hello'] = substr("Hello world Hello world Hell😄 ", 0, 30);
echo json_encode($myvariable);

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1484

Answers (3)

Victor Smirnov
Victor Smirnov

Reputation: 3780

I think the simplest solution would be to use mb_substr

Performs a multi-byte safe substr() operation based on number of characters.

php > $myvariable = array();
php > $myvariable['hello'] = mb_substr("Hello world Hello world Hell😄 ", 0, 30);
php > var_dump($myvariable);
array(1) {
  ["hello"]=>
  string(33) "Hello world Hello world Hell😄 "
}
php > echo json_encode($myvariable);
{"hello":"Hello world Hello world Hell\ud83d\ude04 "}
php >

Upvotes: 8

Gowthaman D
Gowthaman D

Reputation: 579

$first = preg_replace_callback('/[\x{80}-\x{10FFFF}]/u', function ($m) {
    $char = current($m);
    $utf = iconv('UTF-8', 'UCS-4', $char);
    return sprintf("&#x%s;", ltrim(strtoupper(bin2hex($utf)), "0"));
}, $string);

Output

string 'Français' (length=13)

OR

echo json_decode('"\uD83D\uDE00"');

Upvotes: 0

Gowthaman D
Gowthaman D

Reputation: 579

 <meta charset="ISO-8859-1"> 

OR

function entities( $string ) {
    $stringBuilder = "";
    $offset = 0;

    if ( empty( $string ) ) {
        return "";
    }

    while ( $offset >= 0 ) {
        $decValue = ordutf8( $string, $offset );
        $char = unichr($decValue);

        $htmlEntited = htmlentities( $char );
        if( $char != $htmlEntited ){
            $stringBuilder .= $htmlEntited;
        } elseif( $decValue >= 128 ){
            $stringBuilder .= "&#" . $decValue . ";";
        } else {
            $stringBuilder .= $char;
        }
    }

    return $stringBuilder;
}

// source - http://php.net/manual/en/function.ord.php#109812
function ordutf8($string, &$offset) {
    $code = ord(substr($string, $offset,1));
    if ($code >= 128) {        //otherwise 0xxxxxxx
        if ($code < 224) $bytesnumber = 2;                //110xxxxx
        else if ($code < 240) $bytesnumber = 3;        //1110xxxx
        else if ($code < 248) $bytesnumber = 4;    //11110xxx
        $codetemp = $code - 192 - ($bytesnumber > 2 ? 32 : 0) - ($bytesnumber > 3 ? 16 : 0);
        for ($i = 2; $i <= $bytesnumber; $i++) {
            $offset ++;
            $code2 = ord(substr($string, $offset, 1)) - 128;        //10xxxxxx
            $codetemp = $codetemp*64 + $code2;
        }
        $code = $codetemp;
    }
    $offset += 1;
    if ($offset >= strlen($string)) $offset = -1;
    return $code;
}

// source - http://php.net/manual/en/function.chr.php#88611
function unichr($u) {
    return mb_convert_encoding('&#' . intval($u) . ';', 'UTF-8', 'HTML-ENTITIES');
}

/* ---- */

var_dump( entities( "&" ) ) . "\n";
var_dump( entities( "<" ) ) . "\n";
var_dump( entities( "😎" ) ) . "\n";
var_dump( entities( "☚" ) ) . "\n";
var_dump( entities( "" ) ) . "\n";
var_dump( entities( "A" ) ) . "\n";
var_dump( entities( "Hello 😎 world" ) ) . "\n";
var_dump( entities( "this & that 😎" ) ) . "\n";

Upvotes: 0

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