Yii 2 Font Awesome Asset Bundle

This extension provides a assets bundle with Font Awesome for Yii framework 2.0 applications and helper to use icons.

For license information check the LICENSE-file.

Code Status

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Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

composer require "rmrevin/yii2-fontawesome:~2.12"

or add

"rmrevin/yii2-fontawesome": "~2.12",

to the require section of your composer.json file.

Usage

In view

rmrevin\yii\fontawesome\AssetBundle::register($this);

or as dependency in your main application asset bundle

class AppAsset extends AssetBundle
{
    // ...

    public $depends = [
        // ...
        '\rmrevin\yii\fontawesome\AssetBundle'
    ];
}

Class reference

Namespace: rmrevin\yii\fontawesome;

###Class FA or FontAwesome

• static FA::icon($name, $options=[]) - Creates an <code>component\Icon</code> that can be used to FontAwesome html icon
  • $name - name of icon in font awesome set.
  • $options - additional attributes for i.fa html tag.
• static FA::stack($name, $options=[]) - Creates an <code>component\Stack</code> that can be used to FontAwesome html icon
  • $options - additional attributes for span.fa-stack html tag.

###Class component\Icon ($Icon)

• (string)$Icon - render icon
• $Icon->render() - render icon
• $Icon->tag($value) - set another html tag for icon (default i)
  • $value - name of tag
• $Icon->addCssClass($value) - add to html tag css class in $value
  • $value - name of css class
• $Icon->inverse() - add to html tag css class fa-inverse
• $Icon->spin() - add to html tag css class fa-spin
• $Icon->fixedWidth() - add to html tag css class fa-fw
• $Icon->ul() - add to html tag css class fa-ul
• $Icon->li() - add to html tag css class fa-li
• $Icon->border() - add to html tag css class fa-border
• $Icon->pullLeft() - add to html tag css class pull-left
• $Icon->pullRight() - add to html tag css class pull-right
• $Icon->size($value) - add to html tag css class with size
  • $value - size value (variants: FA::SIZE_LARGE, FA::SIZE_2X, FA::SIZE_3X, FA::SIZE_4X, FA::SIZE_5X)
• $Icon->rotate($value) - add to html tag css class with rotate
  • $value - rotate value (variants: FA::ROTATE_90, FA::ROTATE_180, FA::ROTATE_270)
• $Icon->flip($value) - add to html tag css class with rotate
  • $value - flip value (variants: FA::FLIP_HORIZONTAL, FA::FLIP_VERTICAL)

###Class component\Stack ($Stack)

• (string)$Stack - render icon stack
• $Stack->render() - render icon stack
• $Stack->tag($value) - set another html tag for icon stack (default span)
• $Stack->icon($icon, $options=[]) - set icon for stack
  • $icon - name of icon or component\Icon object
  • $options - additional attributes for icon html tag.
• $Stack->icon($icon, $options=[]) - set background icon for stack
  • $icon - name of icon or component\Icon object
  • $options - additional attributes for icon html tag.

Helper examples

use rmrevin\yii\fontawesome\FA;

// normal use
echo FA::icon('home'); // <i class="fa fa-home"></i>

// shortcut
echo FA::i('home'); // <i class="fa fa-home"></i>

// icon with additional attributes
echo FA::icon(
    'arrow-left', 
    ['class' => 'big', 'data-role' => 'arrow']
); // <i class="big fa fa-arrow-left" data-role="arrow"></i>

// icon in button
echo Html::submitButton(
    Yii::t('app', '{icon} Save', ['icon' => FA::icon('check')])
); // <button type="submit"><i class="fa fa-check"></i> Save</button>

// icon with additional methods
echo FA::icon('cog')->inverse();    // <i class="fa fa-cog fa-inverse"></i>
echo FA::icon('cog')->spin();       // <i class="fa fa-cog fa-spin"></i>
echo FA::icon('cog')->fixedWidth(); // <i class="fa fa-cog fa-fw"></i>
echo FA::icon('cog')->ul();         // <i class="fa fa-cog fa-ul"></i>
echo FA::icon('cog')->li();         // <i class="fa fa-cog fa-li"></i>
echo FA::icon('cog')->border();     // <i class="fa fa-cog fa-border"></i>
echo FA::icon('cog')->pullLeft();   // <i class="fa fa-cog pull-left"></i>
echo FA::icon('cog')->pullRight();  // <i class="fa fa-cog pull-right"></i>

// icon size
echo FA::icon('cog')->size(FA::SIZE_3X);
// values: FA::SIZE_LARGE, FA::SIZE_2X, FA::SIZE_3X, FA::SIZE_4X, FA::SIZE_5X
// <i class="fa fa-cog fa-size-3x"></i>

// icon rotate
echo FA::icon('cog')->rotate(FA::ROTATE_90); 
// values: FA::ROTATE_90, FA::ROTATE_180, FA::ROTATE_180
// <i class="fa fa-cog fa-rotate-90"></i>

// icon flip
echo FA::icon('cog')->flip(FA::FLIP_VERTICAL); 
// values: FA::FLIP_HORIZONTAL, FA::FLIP_VERTICAL
// <i class="fa fa-cog fa-flip-vertical"></i>

// icon with multiple methods
echo FA::icon('cog')
        ->spin()
        ->fixedWidth()
        ->pullLeft()
        ->size(FA::SIZE_LARGE);
// <i class="fa fa-cog fa-spin fa-fw pull-left fa-size-lg"></i>

// icons stack
echo FA::stack()
        ->icon('twitter')
        ->on('square-o');
// <span class="fa-stack">
//   <i class="fa fa-square-o fa-stack-2x"></i>
//   <i class="fa fa-twitter fa-stack-1x"></i>
// </span>

// icons stack with additional attributes
echo FA::stack(['data-role' => 'stacked-icon'])
     ->on(FA::Icon('square')->inverse())
     ->icon(FA::Icon('cog')->spin());
// <span class="fa-stack" data-role="stacked-icon">
//   <i class="fa fa-square-o fa-inverse fa-stack-2x"></i>
//   <i class="fa fa-cog fa-spin fa-stack-1x"></i>
// </span>

// autocomplete icons name in IDE
echo FA::icon(FA::_COG);
echo FA::icon(FA::_DESKTOP);
echo FA::stack()
     ->on(FA::_CIRCLE_O)
     ->icon(FA::_TWITTER);

Set another prefix

FA::$cssPrefix = 'awf';

echo FA::icon('home');
// <i class="awf awf-home"></i>
echo FA::icon('cog')->inverse();
// <i class="awf awf-cog awf-inverse"></i>