Create Menu - Vaah Docs

Menus are a collection of links (menu items) used to navigate a website. For more details, see CMS Menus's documentation

For creating menu, you need to follow some steps:

1. Create Location through seeds.

Create a json file of name theme_locations.json at ../<project-name>/VaahCms/Themes/<theme-name>/Database/Seeds/json/ this directory.


[

    {
        "type": "menu",
        "name": "Top",
        "excerpt": "Top of every page"
    }
]
      ├── BlogTheme
          ├── Database/
              ├── Seeds/
                  ├── DatabaseTableSeeder.php
                  ├── SampleDataTableSeeder.php
                  ├── json/
                      ├── theme_locations.json

To run this seed, you have to add some code in DatabaseTableSeeder.php file.

<?php
namespace VaahCms\Themes\BlogTheme\Database\Seeds;


use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
use VaahCms\Modules\Cms\Libraries\CmsSeeder;

class DatabaseTableSeeder extends Seeder
{
    /**
     * Run the database seeds.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function run()
    {
        $theme_slug = 'blogtheme';


        $file = __DIR__.'/json/theme_locations.json';
        CmsSeeder::themeLocations($theme_slug, $file);
    }

    /**
     * Run the database seeds.
     *
     * @return void
     */


}

Now, you just need to reactivate the theme by visiting this url:

<public-url>/backend#/vaah/themes/

Once, the theme is activated, Location will also be created.

2. Create a Menu.

To create Menu, visit this url:

<public-url>/backend/cms#/menus/

Select Theme
Select Location
Create Menu Or Select existing Menu

{!! vh_location('top', true) !!}

Now, you can copy this code and paste it in home blade file. Remove hard code of menu.

<div class="tabs is-right">
                                {{--<ul>
                                    <li class="is-active"><a>Home</a></li>
                                    <li><a href="">Examples</a></li>
                                    <li><a href="">Features</a></li>
                                    <li><a href="">Team</a></li>
                                    <li><a href="">Help</a></li>
                                </ul>
                                <span class="navbar-item">
                                        <a class="button is-white is-outlined"
                                           href="https://github.com/BulmaTemplates/bulma-templates/blob/master/templates/hero.html">
                                            <span class="icon">
                                                <i class="fa fa-github"></i>
                                            </span>
                                            <span title="Hello from the other side">View Source</span>
                                        </a>
                                    </span>--}}




                                {!! vh_location('top', true) !!}
                            </div>

Now, You can see the CMS menu.

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