menus.md

Menu Locations

• Defining Menu Locations
• Get Menu

Defining Menu Locations

To add a new menu location, all we have to do is access our menu service provider located at /app/Providers/MenuServiceProvider.php and add another element to the property $menus array.

<?php namespace App\Providers;

use LaraPress\Menus\MenuServiceProvider as BaseMenuServiceProvider;

class MenuServiceProvider extends BaseMenuServiceProvider
{

    /**
     * An array of id => title pairs to be registered as WordPress menus.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $menus = [
        'header-nav' => 'Header Navigation',
        'footer-nav' => 'Footer Navigation',
    ];
}

Get Menu

After registering the menu, create and assign a menu in WordPress to it. Then we can access the get that menu's items from app('menus').

    app('menus')->find('header-nav')

It returns an array of MenuItem objects appropriately nested as defined in WordPress. On a MenuItem, use the getChildren method for nested MenuItem objects.

You can check if the MenuItem is active with the isActive method. Also, see if a MenuItem has an active descendent with the hasActiveDescendent method.

*To avoid using wp_nav_menu with it's predefined html structure, you can use this.