Building the Sidebar

Quick start

Building a new Sidebar is very easy. You create a new class that implements Maatwebsite\Sidebar\Sidebar interface. This will force you to have a build and getMenu method.

getMenu should return the menu instance, which you can inject into the constructor as Maatwebsite\Sidebar\Menu.

Inside build you can add the groups and items.

use Maatwebsite\Sidebar\Menu;
use Maatwebsite\Sidebar\Sidebar;

class MySidebar implements Sidebar
{

    /**
     * @var Menu
     */
    protected $menu;

    /**
     * @param Menu $menu
     */
    public function __construct(Menu $menu)
    {
        $this->menu = $menu;
    }

    /**
     * Build your sidebar implementation here
     */
    public function build()
    {
        $this->menu->group('settings', function(Group $group) {
            $group->item('User Settings');
        });
    }

    /**
     * @return Menu
     */
    public function getMenu()
    {
        return $this->menu;
    }
}

Menu

Groups

Items

Badges

Appends