Create List of Icons

[BFTrick]

Hello,

I'm extending the Font Awesome WordPress Plugin and wondering if a master list of all of the icons with their name, category, and version added info can be compiled. That way I can programmatically do cool things with the icons like show my users a small subset of icons for them to choose the icon for the feature box on the front page fo their website; or any number of super awesome things.

If you think this sounds like a good idea any idea on how to accomplish it? It would probably be best to be programming language agnostic so maybe a format like XML or Markdown or something? What are your thoughts? I'm willing to chip in if need be.

[stutteringp0et]

why not take the values directly from the included less file?

$iconclasses=array();
$faless = file_get_contents('/path/to/font-awesome.less');
preg_match_all('/\.icon-.*?:before\s*?\{\s*?content/',$faless,$matches);
foreach($matches[0] as $match) {
    $match = explode(':',$match);
    $iconclasses[] = preg_replace('/^\./','',$match[0]);
}

This way, you can rely directly on the font-awesome package contents rather than a static list that someone has to maintain.

[davegandy]

Ask and ye shall receive:
https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/3.1.0-wip/build/icons.yml

The new website generates icon pages from this file. It's not final quite yet, but should be exactly what you're looking for.

[BFTrick]

You are too full of awesome my friend. :)