library ui-tools

gaboacosta/ui-tools

A Library of helpers and adapters to ease web development

GaboAcosta UI-Tools, _(*1)

This is a library I'm building to make my work easier, _(*2)

Currently I'm working a lot with zurb/foundation and Laravel and one of the must cumbersome part of the development to me is coding a navigation bar which is aware of the route it's in so it can highlight menus and elements to provide a visual guide., _(*3)

Here is where the NavBar part of the UI-Tools comes into play., _(*4)

To start add to the requirements in your composer.json:, _(*5)

"gaboacosta/ui-tools": "dev-master"

Next, copy the file /vendor/gaboacosta/ui-tools/GaboAcosta/UITools/NaviGation/config.navBar.php to your /app/config folder, dont forget to rename it. You should now have /app/config/navBar.php, _(*6)

Next open up in your favorite editor /app/config/app.php and add this line to the providers array:, _(*7)

'GaboAcosta\UITools\Navigation\NavBarServiceProvider',

And this to your aliases array:, _(*8)

'NavBar'          => 'GaboAcosta\UITools\Navigation\FoundationNavBar',

Then open up the config file /app/config/navBar.php, _(*9)

Please note that the array for the menu entries is called routes, this means that as of this release you must bind every menu item to a named route, I've provided a field called implemented so you can elements which don't have a route yet, but the link to those will be just a #, _(*10)

http://laravel.com/docs/routing#named-routes, _(*11)

Finally In the layout or view where you want to display this menu just call:, _(*12)

NavBar::render()

Please help me improve this project by reporting issues or making pull request to add functionality, _(*13)

Also please remember that you will have to manually get zurb/foundation working in your project to be able to use this library., _(*14)

http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/, _(*15)