Laravel Menu Wrapper

Laravel Menu Wrapper is a lightweight package that helps you manage dynamic menus in your Laravel app with less effort.

Simply put, this package automatically generates an array of menus based on what you define.

Tested on Laravel 10.x, 11.x, and 12.x — works successfully without any issues.

Installation

Using Composer (recommended):

cd your-laravel-project
composer require sukristyan/laravel-menu-wrapper

After the installation is complete, the provider and configuration files will be published automatically.

Configuration

Currently, there are only 2 configuration items.

Group As (group_as)

Values: item or key.

This setting determines how your menus will be grouped.

key means that your group label will be used as the array key. Your defined menu will look like this:

[
    'Group Name' => [
        [
            'label' => 'Menu #1',
        ],
        [
            'label' => 'Menu #2',
        ]
    ],
    ...
]

item means that your group label will be included in the array as group_name, and your defined menus will be inserted under childs. Your menu will look like this:

[
    [
        'group_name' => 'Group Name',
        'childs' => [
            [
                'label' => 'Menu #1',
            ],
            [
                'label' => 'Menu #2',
            ],
        ],
    ],
    ...
]

Populated Items (populated_items)

Here, you can define what you want to collect from the 'Illuminate\Routing\Route', or add custom identifiers to help integrate the menu into your application.

'populate_items' => function (Route $route) {
    return [
        'route_name' => $route->getName(),
        'type' => 'children'
    ];
}

Usage

NOTE: All collected data will follow what you define in config/laravel-menu-wrapper.php.

Go to your 'routes/web.php', and add the menu('Menu Label', 'Group Label') function to your route:

Route::get('index', [DashboardController::class, 'index'])
    ->name('index')
    ->menu('Dashboard');

After that, you can run php artisan menu:list to show all your menus. You can also get all menus using this code:

app('sukristyan.menu')->all();

You can parse the resulting menu array and use it anywhere in your project.

You can directly use it in a foreach loop, or create a custom page to manage the menu — allowing administrators to add or remove menu items for users.

$menus = app('sukristyan.menu')->all();

foreach ($menus as $menu) {
    ...
}

License

The sukristyan/laravel-menu-wrapper package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.