How to use Yii2cdn

Info: This tutorial will demonstrate how to use Font-Awesome library in a production (online/CDN) or development (local/offline) environment.

I. Installing a library

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1. Create a cdn directory under your root folder.
2. Install or download FortAwesome/Font-Awesome library under cdn directory.

• Path should be /cdn/font-awesome.

II. Add a component

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1. Open @app/config/main.php in your code editor.
2. Add a new propery cdn under components section like following code:

// ...
'components' => [
	// ...
	'cdn' => [
		'class' => '\yii2cdn\Cdn',
		'baseUrl' => '/cdn',
		'basePath' => dirname(dirname(__DIR__)) . '/cdn',
		'components' => [
        	'font-awesome' => [
            	'css' => [
                	[
                    	'font-awesome.min.css', // offline version
                    	'@cdn' => '//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/'
                        		. '4.5.0/css/font-awesome.min.css', // online version
                    ]
                ]
            ]
		],
	],
  // ...
],
// ...

III. Registering assets

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1. Open any view file and paste the following line:

//...
Yii::$app->cdn->get('font-awesome')->register();
//...

IV. Final moment

1. Browse the action url in your browser and check the view souce.

Now it's time to play around, See ya!