http://luke.sno.wden.co.uk/menu for more information and for feature requests.
Very simple method of building menus from database data (id, parent id), service provider register methods for application modules and much more.
use LukeSnowden\Menu\Menu;
include __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';<?php
Menu::addItem( array( 'text' => 'Home', 'URL' => '/', 'reference' => '0' ) );
echo Menu::render();
?>##Example 2 - Nesting Children
<?php
Menu::addItem( array( 'text' => 'Services', 'URL' => '/services/', 'reference' => '1', 'parent' => '0' ) );
echo Menu::render();
?><?php
Menu::addItem( array( 'text' => 'Services', 'URL' => '/services/', 'reference' => '1', 'parent' => '0' ) )->toMenu( 'main' );
echo Menu::render( 'main' );
?>I have added in some of the most used and required classes for styling menus
.first-item {}
.last-item {}
.current-root {}
.current-parent {}
.current-ancestor {}
.has-children {}<?php
Menu::addItem( array( 'text' => 'Home', 'URL' => '/menu-test-2/public/', 'reference' => '1', 'class' => 'home-icon', 'weight' => 0 ) )->toMenu( 'main' );
Menu::addItem( array( 'text' => 'Services', 'URL' => '/menu-test-2/public/services/', 'reference' => '2' ) )->toMenu( 'main' );
Menu::addItem( array( 'text' => 'Development', 'URL' => '/menu-test-2/public/services/development/', 'reference' => '3', 'parent' => '2' ) )->toMenu( 'main' );
Menu::addItem( array( 'text' => 'Design', 'URL' => '/menu-test-2/public/services/design/', 'reference' => '4', 'parent' => '2', 'weight' => 0 ) )->toMenu( 'main' );
echo Menu::render( 'main' );
?><ul class="nav-main">
<li class="home-icon current first-item container node-1">
<a href="/menu-test-2/public/">Home</a>
</li>
<li class=" has-children last-item container node-1">
<a href="/menu-test-2/public/services/">Services</a>
<ul>
<li class=" first-item nav-node node-2">
<a href="/menu-test-2/public/services/design/">Design</a>
</li>
<li class=" last-item nav-node node-2">
<a href="/menu-test-2/public/services/development/">Development</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>$name = false, $attributes = array(), $htmlTag = 'ul'
echo Menu::render( 'main', array( 'class' => 'nav nav-pills nav-stacked', 'role' => 'tablist' ), 'nav' );You may want to change the output layout (demo render class included)
Menu::addItem( array( 'text' => 'Home', 'URL' => '/menu-test-2/public/', 'reference' => '1', 'class' => 'home-icon', 'weight' => 0 ) )->toMenu( 'main' );
Menu::addItem( array( 'text' => 'Services', 'URL' => '/menu-test-2/public/services/', 'reference' => '2' ) )->toMenu( 'main' );
Menu::addItem( array( 'text' => 'Development', 'URL' => '/menu-test-2/public/services/development/', 'reference' => '3', 'parent' => '2' ) )->toMenu( 'main' );
Menu::addItem( array( 'text' => 'Design', 'URL' => '/menu-test-2/public/services/design/', 'reference' => '4', 'parent' => '2', 'weight' => 0 ) )->toMenu( 'main' );
Menu::setMenuType( 'horizontal', 'main', 'LukeSnowden\Menu\Styles' );
echo Menu::render( 'main' );(Please note this is just a general summary of how it would work if you had 2 tables (and models) for navigations and navigation items with a standard hasMany() relationship)
<?php
$navigation = Navigation::with( 'navigationItems' )->where( 'navigation_slug', '=', 'main' )->get();
foreach( $navigation->navigationItems as $item )
{
Menu::addItem( array( 'text' => , $item->name 'URL' => $item->url, 'reference' => $item->id, 'parent' => $item->parent_id, 'weight' => $item->order ) )->toMenu( $navigation->navigation_slug );
}
echo Menu::render( $navigation->navigation_slug );
?>Add the following to you applications composer.json file
composer require lukesnowden/menu:dev-masteradd the following to your /app/config/app.php's provider array.
'LukeSnowden\Menu\MenuServiceProvider'add the following to your /app/config/app.php's aliases array.
'Menu' => 'LukeSnowden\Menu\Facades\Menu'and finally back to your terminal and run
php composer.phar dump-autoload