Symfony world: symfony sfAdminDashPlugin icons

sfAdminDashPlugin is one of the most useful symfony plugins (it's the 8th most popular plugin at the moment). I want to show few ways how to easily extend your backend application with custom icons: where to get them from and how to make your project use them. It seems not very complicated - and it's not :)! But the way your website looks like is still very important.

sfAdminDashPlugin built-in login screen

sfAdminDashPlugin is provided with some standard icons, but probably you'll need more of them. Especially that it's really easy to add new ones - just follow these steps:

find icon(s) that have the folowing sizes: 16x16 and 48x48, should be in .png format and be transparent in the background
copy those files to the plugin directories: PROJECT/plugins/sfAdminDashPlugin/web/images/icons - for the 48x48 file and PROJECT/plugins/sfAdminDashPlugin/web/images/icons/small for the 16x16 file

use new icon(s) in your config/app.yml configuration file:

items:
  Articles:
    url:          article
    image:        CustomIcon.png

set of icons provided with sfAdminDashPlugin

desktop environment

The easiest place to look for your icons is your desktop environment resources directory. For example, I use KDE which stores its icons in

/usr/share/icons/
/usr/share/icons/default.kde4/16x16
/usr/share/icons/default.kde4/48x48

external resources

KDE has lots of icons added by users, which you can find here. I have downloaded several packages and whenever I need a specific icon, I look through them. Good thing about icon themes is that large amount of icons are created in the same style, which would make your backend look even better!