PHPIcons 🐘 🙂

A convenient PHP library to render svg icons.

Get access to over 200,000 icons from more than 150 open source icon sets directly from your php files!

Thanks to Iconify ❤️

🧩 Integrations

Framework	Home	Description
CodeIgniter4	yassinedoghri/codeigniter-icons	A CodeIgniter4 library with convenient helper functions to render svg icons using yassinedoghri/php-icons

🚀 Getting started

1. Install via composer

composer require yassinedoghri/php-icons

2. Configure

Run the following command to initialize the configuration file:

vendor/bin/php-icons init

This will prompt you to create a php-icons.php config file in the root of your project. See config reference for more info.

3. Use anywhere

3.1. icon(string $iconKey) method

Use the icon method in your view files with the icon key string ({prefix}:{icon}) as parameter:

• {prefix}: is the icon set prefix
• {name}: is the icon name

<?php

use PHPIcons\PHPIcons;

$phpicons = new PHPIcons('/path/to/config/file.php');

echo $phpicons->icon('material-symbols:bolt');
// <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="1em" height="1em" viewBox="0 0 24 24">
//      <path fill="currentColor" d="m8 22l1-7H4l9-13h2l-1 8h6L10 22z"/>
// </svg>

👉 add any attribute using the attr() or attributes() methods:

echo $phpicons
        ->icon('material-symbols:bolt')
        ->attr('class', 'text-2xl')
        ->attr('style', 'color: yellow;');
// <svg class="text-2xl" style="color: yellow;" […]>…</svg>

echo $phpicons
        ->icon('material-symbols:bolt')
        ->attributes([
          'class' => 'text-2xl',
          'style' => 'color: yellow;'
        ]);
// <svg class="text-2xl" style="color: yellow;" […]>…</svg>

Tip

Find and copy the icon keys of popular open source icon sets from Iconify's index.

3.2. Scan source files and load icons

Important

When first defining icons, a placeholder (� by default) will be displayed.
Make sure to run the scan command to load the SVGs.

vendor/bin/php-icons scan

⚙️ Config reference

Your config file is used by both the php-icons CLI tool and PHPIcons class, it should look like this:

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

use PHPIcons\Config\PHPIconsConfig;

return PHPIconsConfig::configure()
    ->withPaths([
      __DIR__ . '/src'
    ])
    ->withDefaultPrefix('')
    ->withPlaceholder('�');

Paths

withPaths([])

List of paths to your source files. PHP files will be parsed and scanned for discovering the icons you have defined.

API Hosts

withAPIHosts([])

Iconify API hosts to query for downloading svg icons. Starts by querying the first host, the rest is used as backup.

Defaults to Iconify's public hosts: ["https://api.iconify.design","https://api.simplesvg.com", "https://api.unisvg.com"]

Local Icon Sets

withLocalIconSets([])

If you have custom icons, php-icons can look them up locally in your file system instead of calling for the Iconify API.

Important

php-icons will look for {name}.svg files in your local icon sets

Takes in an associative array with the icon set prefix as the key and its path as value.

Example

my-custom-set/
├── heart.svg
├── rocket.svg
├── star.svg
└── user.svg

// in your config file
->withLocalIconSets([
  'custom' => '/path/to/my-custom-set',
])

// ✅ ALL GOOD
echo $phpicons->icon('custom:heart');
echo $phpicons->icon('custom:rocket');
echo $phpicons->icon('custom:star');
echo $phpicons->icon('custom:user');

// ❌ ICONS NOT FOUND
echo $phpicons->icon('custom:banana');
echo $phpicons->icon('custom:key');

Default Prefix

withDefaultPrefix('')

Default icon set prefix to use when none is set.

Example

With material-symbols set as default prefix:

// this
echo $phpicons->icon('bolt');

// same as this
echo $phpicons->icon('material-symbols:bolt');

Default Icon

withDefaultIcon()

Default icon to use when an icon has not been found.

Takes in an icon key {prefix}:{name}. If a prefix is not set, the default prefix will be used instead.

Default Icon Per Set

withDefaultIconPerSet([])

Default icon to use when an icon has not been found in a set.

Takes in an associative array, with the key being the icon set prefix, and the value being the default icon.

Placeholder

withPlaceholder('�')

String to show when icon is not found or unknown.

Defaults to � (REPLACEMENT CHARACTER).

Identifiers

withIdentifiers([])

Function or method names to match for identifying icon keys in your source files.

Defaults to ['icon'].

🖥️ CLI commands

> vendor/bin/php-icons

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   _ __ | |__  _ __   (_) ___ ___  _ __  ___
  | '_ \| '_ \| '_ \  | |/ __/ _ \| '_ \/ __|
  | |_) | | | | |_) | | | (_| (_) | | | \__ \
  | .__/|_| |_| .__/  |_|\___\___/|_| |_|___/
  |_|         |_|

 A convenient PHP library to render svg icons
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PHPIcons, version 1.0.0.0-dev

Commands:
*
  init i    Configure PHPIcons interactively
  scan s    Scans source files and loads icons

Run `<command> --help` for specific help

❤️ Acknowledgments

This wouldn't have been possible without the awesome work from the Iconify team and designers that maintain the many open source icon sets.

Inspired by astro-icon, blade-icons and rector.

📜 License

Code released under the MIT License.

Copyright (c) 2024-present, Yassine Doghri (@yassinedoghri).