yidas/yii2-fontawesome

Font Awesome Asset Bundle for Yii2 framework

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Font Awesome Extension for Yii 2

Font Awesome Asset Bundle for Yii2 framework, _(*2)

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This is the Font Awesome extension for Yii framework 2.0. It encapsulates Font Awesome distribution assets and thus makes using Font Awesome in Yii applications extremely easy., _(*4)

INSTALLATION

The preferred install way is through Composer:, _(*5)

composer require yidas/yii2-fontawesome

Or you could edit composer.json with adding package in require section then run composer update., _(*6)

"yidas/yii2-fontawesome": "~2.0.0"

CONFIGURATION

Register or depend Asset into your application:, _(*7)

yidas\yii\fontawesome\FontawesomeAsset

For eaxmple, to register Font Awesome assets in view :, _(*8)

\yidas\yii\fontawesome\FontawesomeAsset::register($this);

Or as dependency in your app asset bundle :, _(*9)

namespace app\assets;
use yii\web\AssetBundle;
class AppAsset extends AssetBundle
{
    public $basePath = '@webroot';
    public $baseUrl = '@web';
    public $css = [
        'css/site.css',
    ];
    public $js = [
    ];
    public $depends = [
        'yii\web\YiiAsset',
        'yii\bootstrap\BootstrapAsset',
        'yidas\yii\fontawesome\FontawesomeAsset',
    ];
}

CDN Asset Mode

You could switch Asset to use CDN distribution by configuring config file:, _(*10)

'components' => [
    'assetManager' => [
        'bundles' => [
            'yidas\yii\fontawesome\FontawesomeAsset' => [
                'cdn' => true,
                // 'cdnVersion' => '5.11.0',
            ],
        ],
    ],
],

Specify a CDN source

You could also specify CDN source you like:, _(*11)

'assetManager' => [
    'bundles' => [
        'yidas\yii\fontawesome\FontawesomeAsset' => [
            'cdn' => true,
            'cdnCSS' => ['//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/5.11.0/css/font-awesome.min.css'],
        ],
    ],
],

USAGE

Version Control

Update dependent packages

composer update yidas/yii2-fontawesome

Update newest Font-Awesome version

composer update fortawesome/font-awesome

Specify a Font-Awesome version

composer require fortawesome/font-awesome 5.11.0