Filament: Icon Picker Select Field with Live Icon Display

The Filament Select field supports HTML code inside. This means that we can add a live preview of icons (or anything else) there. But where do we get the icons? We built a function to extract them into an ENUM list!

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How it works

In the Model, the database column is casted to the enum.

class Category extends Model
{
protected $fillable = [
'name',
'icon',
];
 
protected function casts(): array
{
return [
'icon' => HeroIcons::class,
];
}
}

The enum class is generated manually. To generate enum values, all Heroicons are retrieved from the blade-ui-kit/blade-heroicons package, which is installed with the Filament. Icons are found in the /vendor/blade-ui-kit/blade-heroicons/resources/svg folder.

Below is a simple code that shows all Heroicons in the browser as an enum syntax. It can then be copied to a created enum class.

$filesystem = app(\Illuminate\Filesystem\Filesystem::class);
 
$files = $filesystem->allFiles(base_path('/vendor/blade-ui-kit/blade-heroicons/resources/svg'));
 
// ...
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