Active Menu Laravel Package

Helper class for Laravel applications to get active class base on current route name (It's only detect "route name, this is enough for us.").

Supported/Tested Laravel versions

• Laravel 5.1 | 5.2 | 5.3 | 5.4

Requirements

• Laravel >= 5.1 : Laravel 5.1 or above.
• PHP >= 5.5.9 : PHP 5.5.9 or above on your machine.

Installation

Step:1 Install through composer

Install

➜ composer require juy/active-menu

Manual install (alternative)

Simply add the following to the "require" section of your composer.json file, and run composer update command.

"juy/active-menu": "^1.1"

Remove

➜ composer remove juy/active-menu

Step 2: Add the service provider

Append this line to your service providers array in config/app.php.

Juy\ActiveMenu\ServiceProvider::class,

Step 3: Publish config

Publish config file.

➜ php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Juy\ActiveMenu\ServiceProvider" --tag="config"

Config overview

You can modify css active class with custom one (default is 'active') in config/activemenu.php (after publish).

return [

    // The default css class value if the request match given route name
    'class' => 'active',

];

Usage, samples

Alias/Facade

Active::route('route.name');

Application container

app('active')->route('route.name');

Helper function

active_route('route.name');

Wildcard samples

Active::route('route.name.*');
active_route('route.name.*');

Multi route with wilcard

Active::route(['route.name1.*', 'route.name2.*']);
active_route(['route.name1.*', 'route.name2.*']);

Custom blade directive

@ifActiveRoute('route.name')
    <p>Foo</p>
@else
    <p>Bar</p>
@endif

Real life usage

<li class="item {{ active_route('admin.index') }}">
    <a href="admin/index">Dashboard</a>
</li>

License

This project is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT License.