Custom menu links to target new pages, ect outside the admin

[davemathews]

Can we get a way to have links in the menu array that will output to a new page outside the admin?

[janhartigan]

Probably not a bad idea. What I'm thinking of doing in the next major version is something like this:

• Anything prefixed with model. looks for configs in the model_config_path
• Anything prefixed with settings. looks for configs in the settings_config_path
• Anything prefixed with page. looks for custom views
• Anything that quacks like a URL gets displayed as a link

This would allow us to do something like this:

'menu' => array(
    'model.whatever',
    'settings.whatever',
    'Page Title' => 'page.my.view',
    'Link Title' => URL::route('some_route')
)

This would require some small adjustments in the assumptions made in the getMenu() method, namely that if some menu item is a string, it may not necessarily be a model or settings config item.

[davemathews]

That is perfect and what I was looking into going down my path. Good call!!!

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On Aug 26, 2013, at 4:27 PM, "janhartigan" <[email protected]mailto:[email protected]> wrote:

Probably not a bad idea. What I'm thinking of doing in the next major version is something like this:

• Anything prefixed with model. looks for configs in the model_config_path
• Anything prefixed with settings. looks for configs in the settings_config_path
• Anything prefixed with page. looks for custom views
• Anything that quacks like a URL gets displayed as a link

This would allow us to do something like this:

'menu' => array(
'model.whatever',
'settings.whatever',
'Page Title' => 'page.my.view',
'Link Title' => URL::route('some_route')
)

This would require some small adjustments in the assumptions made in the getMenu()https://github.com/FrozenNode/Laravel-Administrator/blob/master/src/Frozennode/Administrator/Menu.php#L42 method, namely that if some menu item is a string, it may not necessarily be a model or settings config item.

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