silverstripe-font-awesome/readme.md

Synopsis

Provides a field to easily pick font-awesome icons

Features

• Easily pick icons to be used anywhere in the frontend
• Can filter on icon name

Installation

Composer

Make sure you're not double loading the css/fonts with a theme.

Ideally composer will be used to install this module. composer require "moe/font-awesome:@stable"

Screen shots

Font awesome icon view

![Font awesome icon]( "Colour swabs")

Filter view

![Filter]( "Colour filter")

Usage

A basic working example, and the following to any class you want the field on;

    private static $db = array(
        'Icon' => 'Varchar(255)',
    );

    public function getCMSFields()
    {
        $fields = parent::getCMSFields();

        $fields->addFieldsToTab('Root.Main', array(
           FontAwesomeField::create("Icon", "Font Awesome icon")
        ));

        return $fields;
    }

Then simple include in the template where you want the icon placed

    <i class="fa $Icon"></i>  

The controller extension should make sure you've got access to the icons so you don't need to double up the CSS file.

Libraries used/modified

• Font Awesome Icon Picker