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TYPO3 CMS extension for Font Awesome icons

Adds Icon tab for content elements and pages.

System requirements

• TYPO3 9.5 – 10.4 LTS

Features

• Icon tab for pages, content elements and system categories
• Icon search by keyword
• Show active icon
• Manually write icon code

Installation

• From TER: awesomeicons, or composer: t3brightside/awesomeicons
• Include static template if Font Awesome is not loaded in your system.
• Change template constant to include CSS from local source. CDN version is used by default.
• Check extension configuration for disabling icon tabs or enabling only for certain content types.

Usage

• No front end rendering included. This you have to do in your own templates.
• Use tx_awesomeicons_icon field from tt_content and pages tables in your templates.

Example This could be your menu item:

<f:for each="{menuMain}" as="menuItem">
    <li class="{f:if(condition:menuItem.active, then:'act')}">
        <f:link.page pageUid="{menuItem.data.uid}" class="{f:if(condition:menuItem.active, then:'act')}">
            <f:if condition="{menuItem.data.tx_awesomeicons_icon}">
                <i class="{menuItem.data.tx_awesomeicons_icon}"></i>
            </f:if>
            {menuItem.title}
        </f:link.page>
    </li>
</f:for>

Sources

• GitHub
• Packagist
• TER

Development and maintenance

Brightside OÜ – TYPO3 development and hosting specialised web agency

Thanks!

This extension uses quite a bit of code from Icon Content by Philipp Müller. Thank you Mr. Müller!