Laravel Menu Architect

A quick and easy way to build menus in Laravel

Installation

composer require rc1021/laravel-menu-architect

If you are in Laravel 5.5 you won't need to edit your config/app.php, if you are in a previous version of Laravel, please do the following:

Append Laravel Menu service provider to providers array in config/app.php.

'providers' => [

        /*
         * Laravel Framework Service Providers...
         */
        Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\ArtisanServiceProvider::class,
        Illuminate\Auth\AuthServiceProvider::class,
        Illuminate\Broadcasting\BroadcastServiceProvider::class,

    ...

        Rc1021\LaravelMenuArchitect\LaravelMenuArchitectServiceProvider::class,

        ...

],

At the end of config/app.php add 'MenuArct' => Rc1021\LaravelMenuArchitect\Facades\MenuArct::class to the $aliases array:

'aliases' => [

    'App'       => Illuminate\Support\Facades\App::class,
    'Artisan'   => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Artisan::class,
    ...
    'MenuArct'      => Rc1021\LaravelMenuArchitect\Facades\MenuArct::class,

],

This registers the package with Laravel and creates an alias called MenuArct.

To use your own settings, publish config.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Rc1021\\LaravelMenuArchitect\\LaravelMenuArchitectServiceProvider"

Getting Started

Start up laravel server

php artisan serve

and open http://127.0.0.1:8000/menu_arct get start.

Demo data (seeder)

You can seeder the database first.

php artisan db:seed --class=MenuArchitectSeeder

Finally, open a view and add:

{!! menu_arct('admin') !!}

Your menu will be created and displayed on the page.

Output data

You can also get menu data format by 'array' or 'json', like that:

$arr_menu = menu_arct('admin', '_array');
$json_menu = menu_arct('admin', '_json');

Output display

Custom data method

You can customize some methods to use $menu, $menu->items(relation with menu_id), $items(parent-children).

$customize_func = function ($menu) 
{
    // $menu: main menu modal.
    // $menu->items: items by menu_id.
    // $menu->buildTree(): get a hierarchical array data.(parent, children)

    $collection = collect($menu->items);
    $filtered = $collection->filter(function ($item, $key) {
        return $item['depth'] == 2 and isset($item['children']);
    });
    return $filtered->all();
}

$customize_data = menu_arct('admin', 'key', ['key' => $customize_func]);

Output display with custom view

Now, you can add a view to resources/views/vendor/menu_architect/display to render menu.

if you have a view called your_view.blade.php

// your_view.blade.php

// $menu: main menu modal
// $menu->items: items by menu_id
// $items: Hierarchical array data(parent, children)

<ul class="sidebar-menu tree" data-widget="tree">
    @foreach ($items as $item)
        <li class="header {{$item['class']}}" style="{{empty($item['color'])?:'color:'.$item['color']}}">{{$item['label']}}</li>
        @if(isset($item['children']))
            @each('menu_architect::menu.display.adminlte_list', $item['children'], 'item')
        @endif
    @endforeach
</ul>

and you can do menu_arct('admin', 'your_view') to render result

If You Need Help

Please submit all issues and questions using GitHub issues and I will try to help you.

Contributing

Please feel free to submit pull requests if you can improve or add any features.

Credits

• 許益銘 rc1021
• All Contributors

License

Laravel Menu Architect is free software distributed under the terms of the MIT license.