Theme menu elements are rich of features including link styling, icons, href properties and so on. Writing menu nodes by hand might get a little too overwhelming and messy. hence we have implemented automatic menu nodes generator which is read from menu config files and rendered in menu section for you.

menu config files file config/menu_aside.php and config/menu_header.php by default hold dummy .

Here's basic example of menu section and explanation how to configure it. Let's take a chunk from menu_aside.php and analyse it.

<?php
// Aside menu
return [

    'items' => [
        // Dashboard
        [
            'title' => 'Dashboard',
            'root' => true,
            'icon' => 'media/svg/icons/Design/Layers.svg', // or can be 'flaticon-home' or any flaticon-*
            'page' => '/',
            'new-tab' => false,
        ],
        // Custom
        [
            'section' => 'Custom',
        ],
        [
            'title' => 'Applications',
            'icon' => 'media/svg/icons/Layout/Layout-4-blocks.svg',
            'bullet' => 'line',
            'root' => true,
            'submenu' => [
                [
                    'title' => 'Users',
                    'bullet' => 'dot',
                    'submenu' => [
                        [
                            'title' => 'List - Default',
                            'page' => 'test',
                        ],
                        [
                            'title' => 'List - Datatable',
                            'page' => 'custom/apps/user/list-datatable'
                        ],
                        [
                            'title' => 'List - Columns 1',
                            'page' => 'custom/apps/user/list-columns-1'
                        ],
                        [
                            'title' => 'List - Columns 2',
                            'page' => 'custom/apps/user/list-columns-2'
                        ],
                        [
                            'title' => 'Add User',
                            'page' => 'custom/apps/user/add-user'
                        ],
                        [
                            'title' => 'Edit User',
                            'page' => 'custom/apps/user/edit-user'
                        ],
                    ]
                ],
...

This part generates a menu nodes as such

Config values and descriptions

Key	Description	Available values
'title'	link title	string
'page'	link url	slug type i.e '/my-blog'
'new-tab'	defines if link opens in new tab	true, false
'root'	defines if link is at root level	true, false
'section'	section heading	string
'icon'	menu icon	Icon file link or class. I.e. SVG Icons or Flaticon
'bullet'	defines menu/submenu bullet style	line, dot
'submenu'	submenu node	array