Your First Menu

Let's get things started by building a simple menu with two links. All of the following examples are using classes from the Spatie\Menu namespace.

<ul>
    <li><a href="/">Home</a></li>
    <li><a href="/about">About</a></li>
</ul>

Menu's are created via the new factory method.

$menu = Menu::new();

Links are created with the to factory method, which requires a url and a string of text (or html) as parameters.

$link = Link::to('/', 'Home');

A menu can be instantiated with an array of items, or items can be added fluently with the add method.

// With an array:
$menu = Menu::new([
    Link::to('/', 'Home'),
    Link::to('/about', 'About'),
]);

// Or fluently:
$menu = Menu::new()
    ->add(Link::to('/', 'Home'))
    ->add(Link::to('/about', 'About'));

When we render or echo the menu, it will output our intended html string.

// Via the `render` method:
echo $menu->render();

// Or just through `__toString`:
echo $menu;

<ul>
    <li><a href="/">Home</a></li>
    <li><a href="/about">About</a></li>
</ul>