https://github.com/msurguy/laravel-shop-menu

Menu ordering/management application demo, like Wordpress menu manager
https://github.com/msurguy/laravel-shop-menu

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Menu ordering/management application demo, like Wordpress menu manager

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/msurguy/laravel-shop-menu
• Owner: msurguy
• Archived: true
• Created: 2014-01-16T01:27:04.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-01-16T08:38:19.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-13T10:35:52.737Z (2 months ago)
• Language: PHP
• Homepage: http://laravel-menu-builder.gopagoda.com/admin/menu
• Size: 683 KB
• Stars: 337
• Watchers: 19
• Forks: 100
• Open Issues: 5
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: readme.md

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## Menu manager like Wordpress using Laravel and Nestable

See demo at: http://laravel-menu-builder.gopagoda.com/admin/menu

Tutorial coming up at: http://maxoffsky.com

This application demonstrates usage of [Nestable plugin](https://github.com/dbushell/Nestable) jQuery plugin to provide the user with nice menu ordering experience without a page refresh:

![menu ordering in action](https://raw.github.com/msurguy/laravel-shop-menu/master/menumanager.gif)

The menu controller is in app/controllers/Admin/MenuController.php

The menu model is in app/models/Menu.php

### A note on the data structure for the menu

The important columns of the "menus" table are:

- id

- parent_id

- order

With these 3 fields we can build nested menus as many levels deep as you want.

The Nestable plugin helps modify the values of these fields for the appropriate rows of data.

### Use of recursion

The hard part that took me a looong time to build is a very small function inside of app/models/Menu.php:

```

public function buildMenu($menu, $parentid = 0) 

{ 

  $result = null;

  foreach ($menu as $item) 

    if ($item->parent_id == $parentid) { 

      $result .= "


      


        

      

      
{$item->label}

        


          Edit |

          Delete

        

      
".$this->buildMenu($menu, $item->id) . "
"; 

    } 

  return $result ?  "\n
\n$result
\n" : null; 

} 


```

This function uses recursion to display the menu to the user even if the menu is many many levels deep. This function alone can save you a bunch of time.

### Installation instructions:

- Download this repo

- Set up a MySQL DB named 'shop-menu' and import install.sql file into it, make sure you edit credentials in app/config/database.php to match yours

- Open up terminal and CD into the folder of this repo

- Run "php artisan serve" to run the application

- Open up the browser and navigate to "localhost:8000" to see it in action

### Star this repo!

The more people star my repos - the more I will give back to the community.

### Read more on my blog and follow on Twitter

I post tutorials all the time on my blog : http://maxoffsky.com, stay updated on my Twitter: http://twitter.com/msurguy

### License

The Laravel menu manager is open-sourced software licensed under the [MIT license](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)