Material Icons Laravel Bridge

Easily use Google Material Design SVG icons in Laravel Blade templates.

Installation

You can install this package via Composer by running this command in your terminal in the root of your project:

composer require avvertix/materialicons-laravel-bridge

For Laravel 5.3 or 5.4

use version 0.1 of the library

Add the Material Iconset service provider to your config/app.php file:

<?php

return [
    // ...
    'providers' => [
        // ...

        MaterialIcons\MaterialIconsBridgeServiceProvider::class,

        // ...
    ],
    // ...
];

Configuration

Out of the box the service uses the icons inside the package (under the assets/icons folder), but you can use another set of icons.

By default the class icon is added to the icon svg tag when inserted into a page. You can change this behavior by overriding the configuration using the config/materialiconset.php file.

A ready to use configuration file can be inserted in your config directory using php artisan vendor:publish --provider="MaterialIcons\MaterialIconsetServiceProvider"

You can specify any default CSS classes you'd like to be applied to your icons using the class option:

<?php

return [
    // ...
    'class' => 'icon', // Add the `icon` class to every SVG icon when rendered
    // ...
];

You can specify multiple classes by separating them with a space, just like you would in an HTML class attribute

Basic Usage

To insert an icon in your template, simply use the @materialicon Blade directive, passing the name of the icon and optionally any additional classes:

<a href="/settings">
    @materialicon('action', 'settings', 'icon-lg') Settings
</a>

<!-- Renders.. -->
<a href="/settings">
    <svg class="icon icon-lg" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24">
        <path d="M19.43 ...(full path omitted for brevity)... 3.5z"/>
    </svg>
    Settings
</a>

To add additional attributes to the rendered SVG tag, pass an associative array as the third parameter:

<a href="/settings">
    @materialicon('action', 'settings', 'icon-lg', ['alt' => 'Gear icon']) Settings
</a>

<!-- Renders.. -->
<a href="/settings">
    <svg class="icon icon-lg" alt="Gear icon" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24">
        <path d="M19.43 ...(full path omitted for brevity)... 3.5z"/>
    </svg>
    Settings
</a>

If you'd like, you can use the materialicon helper directly. The helper exposes a fluent syntax for setting icon attributes:

<a href="/settings">
    {{ materialicon('actions', 'settings')->alt('Alt text')->dataFoo('bar')->dataBaz() }} Settings
</a>

<!-- Renders.. -->
<a href="/settings">
    <svg class="icon" alt="Alt text" data-foo="bar" data-baz>
        <path d="M19.43 ...(full path omitted for brevity)... 3.5z"/>
    </svg>
    Settings
</a>

Use another icon set

Even if this package makes easy to use Google's Material Design icons, it is not limited to that iconset.

You can still use a different iconset by passing the icon_path option in the config/materialiconset.php configuration file. The path refers to the location that contains your individual icons as separate SVG files.

<?php

return [
    // ...
    'icon_path' => 'resources/assets/svg/icons',
    // ...
];

The path is resolved using the base_path() helper, so use a relative path to the root of your project.

If you want more freedom (e.g. SVG sprite support) I encourage you to check the Blade SVG package by Adam Wathan.

Credits

• The icons comes from the Google Material Design Icons package.
• The package functionality is built on top of the great Blade SVG package by Adam Wathan