YII2 Fa Icon Selector

yii2-fa-icon-selector , _(*1)

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Prerequisite

This widget is a wrapper for Bootstrap IconPicker and concentrates only on the FontAwesome part and some of its helpers Font Awesome., _(*2)

Installation

The preferred way to install FaiconSelector is through Composer. Either add the following to the require section of your composer.json file:, _(*3)

"cenotia/yii2-fa-icon-selector": "dev-master", _(*4)

Or run:, _(*5)

$ php composer.phar require cenotia/yii2-fa-icon-selector "dev-master", _(*6)

You can manually install FaiconSelector by downloading the source in ZIP-format., _(*7)

Using FaiconSelector

FaiconSelector is a Yii 2.0 InputWidget. Like any other InputWidget it can be associated with a model and an attribute (or with a name and a value)., _(*8)

FaiconSelector is in namespace cenotia\components\faiconSelector., _(*9)

For instance, to associate faiconSelector with the attribute 'cat_icon' in a form view, use code like this:, _(*10)

use cenotia\components\faiconSelector\FaiconSelector;

...
<?php echo $form->field($model, 'cat_icon')->widget(FaiconSelector::className()) ?>
...

//The class string is what will be stored. Example: fa fa-bank fa-2x
//So your field should be a varchar of 100 at least.
//So you will just to display like this for example.

...
<i class="<?= $model->cat_icon ?>"></i>
...

options

De facto, InputWidget properties can also be used., _(*11)

More options to be documented in coming versions., _(*12)

03/01 2017

dev-master

9999999-dev https://github.com/cenotia/yii2-fa-icon-selector

Widgets to add fontAwesome icons to a model. For example, categories for posts.

Sources Download

MIT

The Requires

yiisoft/yii2 *
bower-asset/bootstrap-iconpicker ~1.7.0

by Cenotia

extension yii2 widget font-awesome inputwidget

yii2-extension yii2-fa-icon-selector

Widgets to add fontAwesome icons to a model. For example, categories for posts.

cenotia/yii2-fa-icon-selector

The README.md