If you know what nested sets are, and use lazychazer/laravel-nestedset package, and tried his example application (https://github.com/lazychaser/nestedset-app), then here is a snippet for replace his simple nav rendering to bootstrap (3.x) navbar compatible output. (Laravel 5 solution)
// 1. the navbar code, just the same example as on the getbootstrap.com site
<nav class="navbar navbar-default">
<div class="container-fluid">
<!-- Brand and toggle get grouped for better mobile display -->
<div class="navbar-header">
<button type="button" class="navbar-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#bs-example-navbar-collapse-1">
<span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
</button>
<a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Brand</a>
</div>
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="bs-example-navbar-collapse-1">
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
{!! HTML::navbar($nav) !!} <!-- $nav is the result of make_nav() function -->
</ul>
<form class="navbar-form navbar-left" role="search">
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Search">
</div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Submit</button>
</form>
<ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
<li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
<li class="dropdown">
<a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">Dropdown <span class="caret"></span></a>
<ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
<li><a href="#">Action</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Another action</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Something else here</a></li>
<li class="divider"></li>
<li><a href="#">Separated link</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div><!-- /.navbar-collapse -->
</div><!-- /.container-fluid -->
</nav>
// 2. add one line to make_nav() function
function make_nav(Collection $tree, $activeItemKey = null, &$active = null)
{
if (!$tree->count()) return null;
return array_map(function ($item) use ($activeItemKey, &$active) {
$data = array();
$childActive = false;
$data['items'] = make_nav($item->children, $activeItemKey, $childActive);
if ($activeItemKey !== null)
{
$childActive |= $activeItemKey == $item->getKey();
}
$active |= $childActive;
$data['active'] = $childActive;
$data['parent_id'] = $item->parent_id; // this line is added
foreach (array('url', 'label') as $key) {
$getter = 'getNav'.ucfirst($key);
$data[$key] = $item->$getter();
}
return $data;
}, $tree->all());
}
// 3. the HTML macro, which helps you build the navbar menu system
HTML::macro('navbar', function($data)
{
if (empty($data)) return '';
$html = '';
foreach ($data as $item)
{
if (is_null($item['parent_id'])) {
$html .= HTML::navbar($item['items']);
} else {
$html .= '<li class="';
if (isset($item['active']) && $item['active']) {
$html .= ' active';
}
if (isset($item['items'])) {
$html .= ' dropdown';
}
$html .= '"';
if (isset($item['items'])) {
$html .= '><a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">';
} else {
$html .= '><a href="'.$item['url'].'">';
}
if (isset($item['items'])) {
$html .= e($item['label']).' <span class="caret"></span></a>';
} else {
$html .= e($item['label']).'</a>';
}
if (isset($item['items'])) {
$html .= '<ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">';
$html .= HTML::navbar($item['items']);
$html .= '</ul>';
}
$html .= '</li>';
}
}
return $html;
});
// Question: where to put the file containing macros in Laravel 5?
// Answer: create a service provider like this:
<?php namespace App\Providers;
use Illuminate\Html\HtmlServiceProvider;
class MacroServiceProvider extends HtmlServiceProvider {
public function register()
{
parent::register();
require base_path().'/app/Macros/macros.php';
}
}
// Question: why the first menu item is skipped?
// Answer: with this package the first root item is the ancestor, every other item will be it's children, so the Bootstrap menu would be ugly..
// Note: it works only for one depth as the default Bootstrap navbar menu