This is a short guide meant to get you up and running quickly with our custom menu system.
{success} To learn more about the methods available check out the class references, or the full example.
When adding a new menu you need to specify the menu name. This is the name that will be used to access the menu object in the future.
$leftMenu = \Menu::getMenu('leftMenu');
// $leftMenu = menu('leftMenu');
To add a link to the menu you just call the method link(). This method takes a slug as the first parameter.
This slug is used in insertAfter() and insertBefore(). The second parameter is a callback with your link data.
$leftMenu->link('home', function (Link $link) {
$link->name = 'The name of the link';
$link->url = 'A url or you can use the route method with a laravel named route';
$link->options[] = 'Add another option here';
});
To add a dop down just add use the dropDown() method. The first parameter is the slug. The second is the display text
for the drop down. The third is a call back where you wil add your link methods.
$rightMenu->dropDown('user', auth()->user()->email, function (DropDown $dropDown) {
$dropDown->link('profile.edit', function (Link $link) {
$link->name = 'Edit your profile';
$link->url = 'user/profile/';
});
$dropDown->link('logout', function (Link $link) {
$link->name = 'Logout';
$link->url = route('auth.logout');
});
});
Anywhere in your code base after the menu has been created you can call the render() method.
$menu = \Menu::render('leftMenu');
// $menu = menu()->render('leftMenu');
This will return your menu object. From there you can loop through the links and add the appropriate html.
@foreach ($menu->link as $link)
<a href='{ {$link->url}}'>{ {$link->name}}</a>
@endforeach