Laravel Menu

Simple component for creating menus in Laravel. Instead of using controllers or creating huge blade templates suggests only one configuration file.

Example (resources/menu/default.php):

<?php

return [
    //'template' => 'menu.menu', // custom blade template can be provided here

    'items' => [
        [
            'name' => 'Home',
            'link' => route('dashboard'),
            'active' => activeMenuController(\App\Http\Controllers\DashboardController::class),
            'icon' => 'home',
        ],
        [
            'name' => 'Users',
            'auth' => authMenuCan('manageUsers'), // Will be shown if user "can" 'manageUsers'.
            // Gate::check('manageUsers') will be checked
            'link' => '/users',
            'active' => activeMenuUrlPrefix('users'), // Will be active for all '/users*' URL's
            'icon' => 'user',
        ],
        [
            'name' => trans('complex.auth'),
            'auth' => function (){
                return Gate::check('one') || Gate::check('two');
            },
            'link' => '/complex-auth',
            'active' => activeMenuUrlPrefix('complex-auth'),
            'icon' => 'complex',
        ],
        [
            'name' => 'Group',
            'icon' => 'group',
            'items' => [
                [
                    'name' => 'Orders',
                    'link' => '/orders', // route('orders'),
                    'active' => activeMenuController(\App\Http\Controllers\OrdersController::class),
                    'icon' => 'orders',
                ],
                [
                    'name' => 'Bar',
                    'link' => '/bar', // route('bar'),
                    'active' => activeMenuController(\App\Http\Controllers\BarController::class),
                    'icon' => 'bar',
                ],
            ],
        ],
    ],
];

Blade template for one-level menus can be very simple:

<!-- Example of menu template with Bootstrap and FontAwesome icons-->
<nav class="navbar navbar-default">
    <ul class="nav navbar-nav">
        @foreach($items as $item)
            <li @if($item['active']) class="active" @endif>
                <a href="{{$item['link']}}" title="{{$item['name']}}">
                    <i class="fa fa-{{$item['icon']}}"></i> {{$item['name']}}
                </a>
            </li>
        @endforeach
    </ul>
</nav>

For two-level menus it's more complicated. Example of it is provided by package.

Installation

First, require package via composer:

composer require adel/laravel-menu

For Laravel < 5.5 check Laravel < 5.5 installation section.

Then publish some initial configuration and blade template:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Adelf\LaravelMenu\LaravelMenuServiceProvider"

resources/menu/default.php and resources/views/menu/menu.blade.php files will appear. It's just an examples. Provide your own configuration and blade template.

Using

This will render menu's blade template

<header>
    {!! LaravelMenu::render() !!}
</header>

Title of active item can be used for title:

<title>
    {{array_get(LaravelMenu::getLastActiveItem(), 'name', 'Default title')}}
</title>

Multiple menus

Another menu can be created by defining it in new file on resources/menu directory. For example, resources/menu/admin.php

<title> 
    {!! array_get(LaravelMenu::getLastActiveItem('admin'), 'name', 'Default title') !!}
</title>
<header>
    {!! LaravelMenu::render('admin') !!}
</header>

Laravel < 5.5 installation

Service provider and facade should be registered in config/app.php:

'providers' => [
    ...
    
    Adelf\LaravelMenu\LaravelMenuServiceProvider::class,
],
'aliases' => [
    ...,

    'LaravelMenu' => Adelf\LaravelMenu\Facade::class,
],