This extension adds UTF-8 emoji with Github tag for the league/commonmark PHP Markdown parsing engine, based on the CommonMark spec.

You can install the client with Composer:

composer require elgigi/commonmark-emoji

Version 2.x of the extension is designed for league/commonmark 2.x. Use version 1 for league/commonmark 1.x.

Extension can be added to any new Environment:

use League\CommonMark\CommonMarkConverter;
use League\CommonMark\Environment;
use ElGigi\CommonMarkEmoji\EmojiExtension;

$converter = new CommonMarkConverter();
$converter->getEnvironment()->addExtension(new EmojiExtension());

echo $converter->convertToHtml('This extension is great :smile:!');