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 |