Laravel Menus

nwidart/laravel-menus is a laravel package which created to manage menus. It has a feature called presenters which enables easy styling and custom structure of menu rendering.

This package is a re-published, re-organised and maintained version of pingpong/menus, which isn't maintained anymore. This package is used in AsgardCMS.

With one big added bonus that the original package didn't have: tests.

• Installation
• Creating A Menu
  • Menu Item
  • Menu Dropdown
  • Menu Dropdown Milti Level
  • Menu Divider
  • Dropdown Header
  • Ordering Menu Item
  • Make Lots of Menu
• Menu Presenter
  • The Available Presenter
  • Make A Custom Presenter
  • Register A New Menu Style
• View Presenter
  • The Available View Presenter
• Rendering Menu
• Menu Inheritance
  • Menu Instance
  • Finding Menu Item
  • Modifying Menu

Installation

You can install the through composer command line.

composer require nwidart/laravel-menus

After the package installed, add a new service provider to the providers array in config/app.php file.

'providers' => [
	Nwidart\Menus\MenusServiceProvider::class,
],

Add new alias for Menu facade to the aliases array at the same file.

'aliases' => array(
	'Menu' => Nwidart\Menus\Facades\Menu::class,
)

Then, publish package's assets by running:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Nwidart\Menus\MenusServiceProvider"

Creating A Menu

You can define your menus in app/Support/menus.php file. That file will loaded automatically by this package.

To create a menu, simply call the create method from Menu facade. The first parameter is the menu name and the second parameter is callback for defining menu items.

Menu::create('navbar', function($menu) {
    // define your menu items here
});

Menu Item

As explained before, we can defining menu item in the callback by accessing $menu variable, which the variable is instance of Nwidart\Menus\MenuBuilder class.

To defining a plain URL, you can use ->url() method.

Menu::create('navbar', function($menu) {
    // URL, Title, Attributes
    $menu->url('home', 'Home', ['target' => 'blank']);
});

If you have named route, you define the menu item by calling ->route() method.

Menu::create('navbar', function($menu) {
	$menu->route(
        'users.show', // route name
        'View Profile', // title
        ['id' => 1], // route parameters
        ['target' => 'blank'] // attributes
    );
});

You can also defining the menu item via array by calling ->add() method.

Menu::create('navbar', function($menu) {
    $menu->add([
        'url' => 'about',
        'title' => 'About',
        'attributes' => [
            'target' => '_blank'
        ]
    ]);

    $menu->add([
        'route' => ['profile', ['user' => 'nwidart']],
        'title' => 'Visit My Profile',
        'attributes' => [
            'target' => '_blank'
        ]
    ]);
});

Menu Dropdown

To create a dropdown menu, you can call to ->dropdown() method and passing the first parameter by title of dropdown and the second parameter by closure callback that retrieve $sub variable. The $sub variable is the the instance of Nwidart\Menus\MenuItem class.

Menu::create('navbar', function($menu) {
    $menu->url('/', 'Home');
    $menu->dropdown('Settings', function ($sub) {
        $sub->url('settings/account', 'Account');
        $sub->url('settings/password', 'Password');
        $sub->url('settings/design', 'Design');
    });
});

Menu Dropdown Multi Level

You can also create a dropdown inside dropdown by using ->dropdown() method. This will allow to to create a multilevel menu items.

Menu::create('navbar', function($menu) {
    $menu->url('/', 'Home');
    $menu->dropdown('Account', function ($sub) {
        $sub->url('profile', 'Visit My Profile');
        $sub->dropdown('Settings', function ($sub) {
            $sub->url('settings/account', 'Account');
            $sub->url('settings/password', 'Password');
            $sub->url('settings/design', 'Design');
        });
        $sub->url('logout', 'Logout');
    });
});

Menu Divider

You may also define a divider for each menu item. You can divide between menu item by using ->divider() method.

Menu::create('navbar', function($menu) {
    $menu->url('/', 'Home');
    $menu->divider();
    $menu->url('profile', 'Profile')
});

Dropdown Header

You may also add a dropdown header for the specified menu item by using ->header() method.

Menu::create('navbar', function($menu) {
    $menu->url('/', 'Home')
    $menu->dropdown('Settings', function ($sub) {
        $sub->header('ACCOUNT');
        $sub->url('/settings/design', 'Design');
        $sub->divider();
        $sub->url('logout', 'Logout');
    });
});

Ordering Menu Item

You may order the menu by specify order parameter.

Menu::create('navbar', function($menu) {
    $menu->url('/', 'Home', 1);
    $menu->route('/', 'About', ['user' => '1'], 2);
    $menu->dropdown('Settings', function ($sub) {
        $sub->header('ACCOUNT');
        $sub->url('/settings/design', 'Design');
        $sub->divider();
        $sub->url('logout', 'Logout');
    }, 3);
});

You may also set the order value by calling ->order method.

Menu::create('navbar', function($menu) {
    $menu->url('/', 'Home', ['icon' => 'fa fa-dashboard'])->order(1);
    $menu->route('/', 'About', ['user' => '1'], ['icon' => 'fa fa-user'])->order(2);
    $menu->dropdown('Settings', function ($sub) {
        $sub->header('ACCOUNT');
        $sub->url('/settings/design', 'Design');
        $sub->divider();
        $sub->url('logout', 'Logout');
    })->order(3);
});

By default ordering feature is disabled. You can enable the ordering feature in your config file. Just update value of ordering config to true and now your menu will ordered by order key.

return [
	'ordering' => true
];

You may also enable or disable menu ordering for each menu via ->enableOrdering and ->disableOrdering method.

Menu::create('navbar', function($menu) {
    // disable menu ordering
    $menu->enableOrdering();

    // disable menu ordering
    $menu->disableOrdering();
});

Make many of menus

You can also create a set of menus with different name and menu items.

Menu::create('menu1', function($menu) {
	$menu->route('home', 'Home');
    $menu->url('profile', 'Profile');
});

Menu::create('menu2', function($menu) {
    $menu->route('home', 'Home');
    $menu->url('profile', 'Profile');
});

Menu Presenter

This package includes some presenter classes that are used for converting menus to html. By default the generated menu style is bootstrap navbar. But, there are also several different menu styles.

You can apply the menu style via ->style() method.

Menu::create('navbar', function($menu) {
    $menu->style('nav-pills');
});

Or you can set which presenter to present the menu style via ->setPresenter() method.

Menu::create('navbar', function($menu) {
    $menu->setPresenter(\Nwidart\Menus\Presenters\Bootstrap\NavTabPresenter::class);
});

You can also set which style of presenter when you rendering a menu.

Menu::render('navbar', 'navbar-right');

Menu::render('navbar', \Nwidart\Menus\Presenters\Bootstrap\NavPillsPresenter::class);

The List of Available Menu Presenter Class

Make A custom Presenter

You can create your own presenter classes. Make sure your presenter extends the Nwidart\Menus\Presenters\Presenter and implements the 'Nwidart\Menus\Presenters\PresenterInterface' interface.

For example, this is zurb-top-bar presenter.

use Nwidart\Menus\Presenters\Presenter;

class ZurbTopBarPresenter extends Presenter
{
	/**
	 * {@inheritdoc }
	 */
	public function getOpenTagWrapper()
	{
		return  PHP_EOL . '<section class="top-bar-section">' . PHP_EOL;
	}

	/**
	 * {@inheritdoc }
	 */
	public function getCloseTagWrapper()
	{
		return  PHP_EOL . '</section>' . PHP_EOL;
	}

	/**
	 * {@inheritdoc }
	 */
	public function getMenuWithoutDropdownWrapper($item)
	{
		return '<li'.$this->getActiveState($item).'><a href="'. $item->getUrl() .'">'.$item->getIcon().' '.$item->title.'</a></li>';
	}

	/**
	 * {@inheritdoc }
	 */
	public function getActiveState($item)
	{
		return \Request::is($item->getRequest()) ? ' class="active"' : null;
	}

	/**
	 * {@inheritdoc }
	 */
	public function getDividerWrapper()
	{
		return '<li class="divider"></li>';
	}

	/**
	 * {@inheritdoc }
	 */
	public function getMenuWithDropDownWrapper($item)
	{
		return '<li class="has-dropdown">
		        <a href="#">
		         '.$item->getIcon().' '.$item->title.'
		        </a>
		        <ul class="dropdown">
		          '.$this->getChildMenuItems($item).'
		        </ul>
		      </li>' . PHP_EOL;
		;
	}
}

To use this custom presenter, you can use the setPresenter method.

Menu::create('zurb-top-bar', function($menu) {
    $menu->setPresenter('ZurbTopBarPresenter');
});

Register A New Menu Style

Menu style is like an alias to a presenter. You can register your style from your costum presenter in the configuration file in config/menus.php.

return [
	'navbar'		=>	'Nwidart\Menus\Presenters\Bootstrap\NavbarPresenter',
	'navbar-right'	=>	'Nwidart\Menus\Presenters\Bootstrap\NavbarRightPresenter',
	'nav-pills'		=>	'Nwidart\Menus\Presenters\Bootstrap\NavPillsPresenter',
	'nav-tab'		=>	'Nwidart\Menus\Presenters\Bootstrap\NavTabPresenter',

	'zurb-top-bar'	=>	'ZurbTopBarPresenter',
];

Now, you can use a style like this.

Menu::create('zurb-top-bar', function($menu) {
    $menu->style('zurb-top-bar');
});

View Presenter

If you don't like to use presenter classes, you use view presenters instead. We can set which view to present the menus by calling ->setView() method.

Menu::create('navbar', function($menu) {
    $menu->setView('menus::default');
});

The List of Available View Presenter

Rendering Menu

To render the menu you can use render or get method.

Menu::render('navbar');

Menu::get('navbar');

You can also set which style to present the menu in the second parameter.

Menu::render('navbar', 'navbar-right');

Or you may also set which view to present the menu.

Menu::render('navbar', 'menus::nav-tabs');

The Menu Instance

Sometimes, maybe we need to add a new additional menu from controller or other place. To get an instance of an existing menu, you can use the instance method.

$menu = Menu::instance('zurb-top-bar');

// You can also make additions to the menu again

$menu->add(['title' => 'Settings', 'route' => 'settings']);

$menu->url('profile', 'Profile');

$menu->route('settings', 'Settings');

Finding Menu Item

To find menu item, you can use findBy method from Nwidart\Menus\MenuBuilder class.

$menu = Menu::instance('sidebar');

$menu->url('profile', 'Profile');

$menuItem = $menu->findBy('title', 'Profile');

// add child menu
$menuItem->url('foo', 'Foo');

You may also use whereTitle helper method to find a specific menu item. Also, you can add other child menu item in the callback that located in the second argument in whereTitle method.

$menu = Menu::instance('sidebar');

$menu->url('profile', 'Profile');

$menu->whereTitle('Profile', function ($sub)
{
	$sub->url('foo', 'Foo');
});

// add childs menu

Modifying Menu

After we create a menu, maybe we need to add other additional menus. You may modifying menu via ->modify method.

Menu::modify('navbar', function($menu)
{
	$menu->add([
		'title' => 'Foo',
		'url' => 'bar',
	]);
});