Change extension icon

rmiller335

Having made a little progress, I'm trying to set the icon in my extension. Originally it was blank:

  "extra": {
    "flarum-extension": {
      "title": "RocTalk Circles",
      "icon": {
        "name": "",
        "backgroundColor": "",
        "color": ""
      }
    },

... and now I've changed it to:

  "extra": {
    "flarum-extension": {
      "title": "RocTalk Circles",
      "icon": {
        "name": "fas fa-users",
        "backgroundColor": "#85144b",
        "color": "#39cccc"
      }
    },

... but it's still a light grey blank on the admin page. I've tried composer remove and require in the flarum directory, same thing in the extension directory, php flarum cache:clear, clearing the browser cache. What have I missed?

Thanks,
Bob

clarkwinkelmann

rmiller335 removing and re-adding the extension is usually all that's needed for Composer to compile a new list of the extension metadata which is then used by Flarum to render the extension list.

Do the title and icon change when you remove and re-add the extension? If none change, the extension probably isn't correctly removed.

rmiller335

I tried disable / uninstall on the admin page followed by composer require, and composer remove / require on the CLI. Composer remove made the icon and title go away on the admin page, but it comes back with <i class="icon "></i>. What else do I need to do to correctly remove?

luceos

The easiest way to clear the cache of composer is to run composer dumpautoload. Flarum then picks up the change in the composer.json of your extension.

Changes from the admin area won't change this meta data. Composer removing and requiring should worked just fine.

If you're hoping you are loading your extension from the workbench, make sure to check whether vendor/your/extension directory is symlinked.

rmiller335

Thanks. I'm not really sure what the problem was but I created a new instance, installed my extension and it's good now.