current or active route..

[pablomaurer]

didn't search for it, but anyway a built in solution for current or active menu-item would be great...

An really this one is the best menu Builder for Laravel out there !! Thanks for making it =)

[lavary]

I'm actually working on this feature and will push it up today.

Thanks for the comment :)

[pablomaurer]

That will be great =) just fell in love with you 😝

[lavary]

haha. I'm glad you like the package :)

[Fuhrmann]

Yeah, that would be nice. =)

[leek]

I accomplished this by wrapping my menu in a Route filter, e.g.:

Menu::make('myMenu', function($menu) {

    Route::filter('myFilter', function($route, $request) use ($menu) {
        // $route is the current route
        $someParameter = $route->getParameter('someParameter');

        $menu->add('Link', ['route' => ['someRouteName', 'someParameter' => $someParameter]]);
    });

});

[pablomaurer]

My solution if maybe somebody else is interested:

    $createMenu = function($guestMenu) {
        $guestMenu->add(trans('menu.dashboard'), array('route'  => 'dashboard'));
        $guestMenu->add('Produkte', array('route'  => 'dashboard'));
    };
    $guestMenu = Menu::make('mainNav', $createMenu);

    // here is the filter to find the active item
    $guestMenu->filter(function($item) {
        if(route($item->link->path['route']) == Request::url()) {  // but then all items must have a route
            $item->active();
        }
        return true;
    });

[dustingraham]

I did something similar to mnewmedia:

->filter(function($item)
{
    // Check if route is active.
    if (Request::url() === rtrim($item->url(),'#/'))
    {
        $item->active();
    }

Sometimes I'd like to mark an item as active when the user is in a sub-path so I might adjust this at some point to allow some sort of wildcard matching, but for now this works.

[leek]

@mnewmedia / @dustingraham - You guys should check out Request::is() which allows wildcard URL matching.

Example:

Request::is('foo/*');

[dustingraham]

@leek Yes, I'm using Request::is in another system. It just didn't seem to fall in to place here. We may need another parameter in the menu->add function for active url match or something to that effect.

[lavary]

dev-master now automatically activates items and all parent nodes according to the current URI

Instead of relying on wildcard URL matching for activating parent nodes, I used Request:path() and and a recursive function to mark the parent nodes as activated; The reason is that some parent nodes might not have any URL defined.

You can choose which item to be activated (Item or Link) in options.php which resides in the package config/ directory.

<?php
// ...
'active_element' => 'item',    // item|link
// ...

[pablomaurer]

oh what damn fantastic create news =)