Menu Generator for Laravel

A class for Laravel to easily generate HTML menus.

Readme is a work in progress...

Install

Via Composer

$ composer require taylornetwork/menu-generator

Setup

Add the service provider to the providers array in config/app.php

'providers' => [

	TaylorNetwork\MenuGenerator\MenuGeneratorServiceProvider::class,

],

Publish config to your config directory

$ php artisan vendor:publish

Usage

Command

This package comes with an artisan command menu:definition to easily generate menu definitions

To generate a menu definition

$ php artisan menu:definition MenuName

This will create App\Menus\MenuName.php

The menu definitions extend the TaylorNetwork\MenuGenerator\Definition class which has some functionality for rendering the menu once defined.

Add all the items on your menu in the define() function

namespace App\Menus;

use TaylorNetwork\MenuGenerator\Definition;

class MenuName extends Definition
{
	public function define()
	{
		$this->generator->newMenu();
		$this->generator->addItem('Home', route('home'));
		$this->generator->closeMenu();
	}
}

Would generate a very simple menu with only a Home link.

See the generator instance documentation below.

Generator Instance

The definition class uses the TaylorNetwork\MenuGenerator\Generator class to generate menus. In any class that extends TaylorNetwork\MenuGenerator\Definition the generator instance can be accessed by the protected property generator or by the public function getGenerator().

Methods

newMenu()

Every menu must start with a newMenu() call to open the menu HTML tags.

addItem(string [, string, bool, string ])

The addItem method accepts a minimum of 1 parameter, the text to display on the link. See table for parameter details.

#	Name	Description	Type	Default Value	Required
1	Text	The text to display for the link	string	-	Yes
2	Href	The link destination URL	string	`'#'`	No
3	Show Icon	Show an icon in the link	bool	`false`	No
4	Icon	The icon to display (usually a font-awesome name ie: `'fa-dashboard'`)	string	`null`	No

Note: when using font-awesome, by default fa fa-fw is prepended to the name so it is not required, only the fa-dashboard is required.

addSubMenu(string [, bool, string ])

closeSubMenu()

closeMenu()

closeIfNotClosed()

renderMenu()

setCallback(string, Closure)

Sets a callback function by a key name. See generator callbacks for a list of keys.

$menuOpen = false;

$generator->setCallback('menu.after.open', function () use ($menuOpen) {
	$menuOpen = true;
});

Generator Callbacks

There are a number of callback functions that the generator will call if they exist. You can set a callback by adding it to your config/menu_generator.php in the callbacks array or by using the setCallback method.

Menu Callbacks

menu.before.open

Called when newMenu() is called, before opening the HTML tag.

menu.after.open

Called when newMenu() is called, after opening the HTML tag.

menu.before.close

Called when the menu is being closed but before the closing HTML tag is added.

menu.after.close

Called after the menu is fully closed and processing is done.

menu.before.render

Called right before the menu is rendered to HTML.

Sub Menu Callbacks

sub-menu.before.open

Called when adding a sub menu but before processing the add.

sub-menu.after.open

Called when adding a sub menu after it has been added.

sub-menu.before.close

Called when closing a sub menu before processing the close has started.

sub-menu.after.close

Called after sub menu was closed.

Item Callbacks

item.before.add

Called before adding an item.

item.after.add

Called after item has been added.

Credits

Sam Taylor

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.

taylornetwork / menu-generator