README

A CakePHP plugin to

• make working with HTML and helpers more convenient
• provide (font) icons from various libraries out of the box
• together with IdeHelper also provide auto-complete on those icons

You can use one or many of the following icon sets out of the box:

• Bootstrap
• FontAwesome v4/v5/v6
• Material
• Feather
• Lucide (modern Feather fork with 1000+ icons)
• Heroicons (by Tailwind CSS team)

You can also add your own custom icon set.

This branch is for CakePHP 5.1+. See version map for details.

Setup

composer require dereuromark/cakephp-templating

and

bin/cake plugin load Templating

Documentation

Core Helpers

• Icon Helper - Comprehensive icon rendering with support for Bootstrap, FontAwesome, Material, Feather, Lucide, and Heroicons
• IconSnippet Helper - Convenience wrappers for common icon snippet use cases
• Html Helper - Enhanced HtmlHelper with automatic HtmlStringable support
• Form Helper - Enhanced FormHelper with automatic HtmlStringable support
• Templating Helper - Useful templating functionality for colored status indicators

Core Concepts

• HtmlStringable - Make your template code HTML aware with the Html value object

Quick Start

See Complete Documentation for full details.

Demo

See sandbox.dereuromark.de/sandbox/templating-examples.

TODO

• Add more useful things - help welcome