In Laravel Development, We can generate a dynamic menu from backend side and get it in frontend side. There are following steps to create a Generate a Dynamic Menu using Laravel:

Let’s Start with Backend side

Step:1 Installation

-> Install a package

  composer require harimayco/laravel-menu

Step:2 Add the following two class

-> Add ‘providers’ array in this file config/app.php

  Harimayco\Menu\MenuServiceProvider::class,

 

->Add ‘facade’ array in this file config/app.php

 'Menu' => Harimayco\Menu\Facades\Menu::class,

Step:3 Publish

->In Terminal, run vendor:publish

 php artisan vendor:publish –provider="Harimayco\Menu\MenuServiceProvider"

 

Note: By default, this package will create two tables ‘menu_items’,’menus’.

Step:4 Migrate

->In Terminal, run migrate

 php artisan migrate

Step:5 Create Model

->Create two models menus and menu_items

• menus

      <?php

      namespace App;

      use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

      class Menu extends Model

      {

         protected $table = "menus";

         protected $fillable = ['id','name'];

   }

2) menu_items

   <?php

     namespace App\Model;

       use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

       class MenuItem extends Model

         {

            protected $table="menu_items";

            protected $fillable=['label','link','parent','sort','class','menu','depth'];

     }

Step:6 Create View

->Create Menu.blade.php file add following code

   @extends('app')

   @section('contents')

   {!! Menu::render() !!}

     @endsection  

      //You Must Have Jquery Loaded Before menu scripts

         @push('scripts')

         {!! Menu::scripts() !!}

     @endpush

Step:7 Create Controller

->Create MenuController file  and return view file

    <?php

     namespace App\Http\Controllers;

     use Illuminate\Http\Request;

     use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;

     class Menucontroller extends Controller

        {

           public function index()

              {

                 return view('menu');

              }

        }

Step:8 Define Route

->In web.php define a route

    <?php

    Route::get('menu','MenuController@index')->name('menu.get');

Step:9 Display menu editor in the browser

Step:10 Create Menu as following steps:

1) Click on ‘Create new menu’ button

2) Add a name and click save menu

3) In Custom Link add label name and click ‘Add menu item’

4) Added Menu

5) Add Sub Menu

To create sub menu, Add Label name and click ‘Add menu item’, here I have created a menu as ‘Web Design’. Now drag and drop this menu to its main menu, here it is ‘Services’. So, Now I have Services as Main Menu and Web Design as it’s submenu.

Backend side menu creation has been completed here.

Now, frontend side

Step:11 Create Menu

->This step will create menu frontend side

->Add following content in your theme in the header section

<header>
   <div class="row">

   <div class="col-lg-4 col-12">thinkTANKER</div>

   <div class="col-lg-8 col-12 menusection">

   <ul class="nav float-right" id="menusection">

     <li class="closemenu"><span class="far fa-times-circle"></span></li>

        @foreach($menuitems as $m)

          @if($m->children->count()>0)

             @if(isset($set_active_menu_items))

                @if(in_array($m->id, array_keys($set_active_menu_items)))

                   <li class="nav-item active">

                      @else

                      <li class="nav-item">

                          @endif

                             @else

                       <li class="nav-item">

                         @endif

                      <a class="nav-link nav-link-submenu" href="javascript:;">{{$m->label}}

                      <span class="navbar-nav-arrow"><i class="fas fa-angle-down"></i></span></a>

                         <ul class="nav nav-submenu flex-column">

                            @foreach($m->children as $sub)

                            @if($sub->subchildren->count()>0)

                            @if(isset($set_active_menu_items))

                            @if(in_array($sub->id, array_keys($set_active_menu_items)))

                       <li class="nav-item text-left active">

                            @else

                       <li class="nav-item text-left">

                            @endif

                            @else

                       <li class="nav-item text-left">

                            @endif

                      <a class="nav-link nav-link-subsubmenu" href="javascript:;">{{$sub->label}}</a>

                          <ul class="nav nav-sub-submenu">

                            @foreach($sub->subchildren as $da)

                            @if(isset($set_active_menu_items))

                            @if(in_array($da->id, array_keys($set_active_menu_items)))

                               <li class="nav-item text-left active">

                               @else

                              <li class="nav-item text-left">

                                   @endif

                               @else

                                <li class="nav-item text-left">

                                   @endif

                               <a class="nav-link">{{ $da->label }}</a></li>

                                   @endforeach

                         </ul>

                    </li>

                      @else

                        @if(isset($set_active_menu_items))

                        @if(in_array($sub->id, array_keys($set_active_menu_items)))

                         <li class="nav-item text-left active">

                        @else

                          <li class="nav-item text-left">

                        @endif

                     @else

                          <li class="nav-item text-left">

                           @endif

                         <a class="nav-link" >{{$sub->label}}</a></li>


                    @endif

                    @endforeach

                </ul>

           </li>

                @else

                   @if(isset($set_active_menu_items))

                   @if(in_array($m->id, array_keys($set_active_menu_items)))

                     <li class="nav-item active">

                   @else

                     <li class="nav-item">

                   @endif

                   @else

                     <li class="nav-item">

                         @endif

                    <a class="nav-link" >{{$m->label}}</a></li>

                       @endif

               @endforeach

           </ul>

      </div>

  </div>

</header>

Step:12 Display

->The above code will display menu in frontend side like below figure.

For more detail, you can jump to Link: http://github.com/harimayco/wmenu-builder

Happy Coding.

Thank you.