README

This plugin provides a simple helper for creating links containing markup for Font Awesome icons with properly escaped link text. You will need to install Font Awesome separately.

Requirements

• CakePHP 3.x

Use the 2.x version for CakePHP 2.

Installation

This plugin can be installed using Composer:-

composer require drmonkeyninja/cakephp-font-awesome:3.*

Then add the following line to your bootstrap.php to load the plugin.

Plugin::load('FontAwesome');

You need to ensure the helper is loaded before you use it in your templates. You can do this from your AppView.php file in the initialize() method:-

public function initialize()
{
    $this->loadHelper('FontAwesome.Fa');
}

Usage

To render a link containing the markup for the fa-chevron-circle-right icon at the end you can do:-

<?= $this->Fa->link('chevron-circle-right', __('Proceed'), ['controller' => 'pages', 'display', 'next']) ?>

If you want the icon to appear before the text you can use the before option:-

<?= $this->Fa->link('chevron-circle-right', __('Proceed'), ['controller' => 'pages', 'display', 'next'], ['before' => true]) ?>