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nickjacobs/silverstripe-font-awesome-field
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A simple form field for selecting font-awesome classes in the CMS.

v1.1.3(9y ago)02.0k3BSD-3-ClausePHP

Since May 10Pushed 7y ago1 watchersCompare

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forked from a2nt/silverstripe-font-awesome
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[](#forked-from-a2ntsilverstripe-font-awesome)

Synopsis
--------

[](#synopsis)

Provides a field to easily pick font-awesome icons

Features
--------

[](#features)

- Easily pick icons to be used anywhere in the backend
- Can filter on icon name

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

SilverStripe 4+

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

### Composer

[](#composer)

Ideally composer will be used to install this module. `composer require "nickjacobs/silverstripe-font-awesome-field:dev-master"`

Screen shots
------------

[](#screen-shots)

### Font awesome icon view

[](#font-awesome-icon-view)

[![Font awesome icon](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/peavers/silverstripe-font-awesome/master/images/screens/font-awesome-icons.png "Icons")](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/peavers/silverstripe-font-awesome/master/images/screens/font-awesome-icons.png)
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[](#)

### Filter view

[](#filter-view)

[![Filter](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/peavers/silverstripe-font-awesome/master/images/screens/font-awesome-filter.png "Filter")](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/peavers/silverstripe-font-awesome/master/images/screens/font-awesome-filter.png)

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

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

```
use SilverStripe\FontAwesome\FontAwesomeField;

class Blabla extends ... {
    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

```

```

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

Want colours instead of icons?
------------------------------

[](#want-colours-instead-of-icons)

Got you covered, checkout [color-swabs](https://github.com/peavers/silverstripe-color-swabs)!

Libraries used/modified
-----------------------

[](#libraries-usedmodified)

- Font Awesome > 5

###  Health Score

34

—

LowBetter than 77% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity20

Limited adoption so far

Community14

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity68

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor2

2 contributors hold 50%+ of commits

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~92 days

Recently: every ~129 days

Total

7

Last Release

3469d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/1f4122caef96fa4985744099793943c63af711e80ba886f0f9befacfd5c7a5be?d=identicon)[nickjacobs](/maintainers/nickjacobs)

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Top Contributors

[![a2nt](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/672794?v=4)](https://github.com/a2nt "a2nt (9 commits)")[![nickjacobs](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/654798?v=4)](https://github.com/nickjacobs "nickjacobs (9 commits)")[![peavers](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1758007?v=4)](https://github.com/peavers "peavers (5 commits)")[![derdiggn](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5464282?v=4)](https://github.com/derdiggn "derdiggn (1 commits)")

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Tags

font-awesome

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