Digbang/FontAwesome
Helper class to create FontAwesome icons with a predefined markup.
Usage
Basic usage
FontAwesome::icon('icon', 'extra-class')
// or...
FontAwesome::icon('icon', ['class' => 'extra-class'])
Would result in...
<i class="fa fa-icon extra-class"></i>
HTML Attributes
You can also add any other attributes to the html. Doing...
FontAwesome::icon('times', ['title' => 'Delete this!'])
would result in...
<i class="fa fa-times" title="Delete this!"></i>
Changing the tag
You can change the tag used by the library. Doing...
FontAwesome::setTag('span');
FontAwesome::icon('edit');
would result in...
<span class="fa fa-edit"></span>
Laravel
Add the service provider and facade to your app/config/app.php
file:
'providers' => array(
...
'Digbang\FontAwesome\FontAwesomeServiceProvider',
...
);
And add the class alias, so you can call it like \FontAwesome::icon
'aliases' => array(
...
'FontAwesome' => 'Digbang\FontAwesome\Facade',
...
);