Create a sidebar menu with fontawesome icon and menu name

Hi @silverground

It's not clear to me what is the part you don't know how to do.

• You don't know how to make a sidebar accesible to all your pages?
• Don't know how to fetch data from a database within your Controller and render it on a page?
• Don't know how to dynamically render the menu based on the text and link fetched from database?

In any case, if you don't know any of those questions, or all three of them, you may want to take a look at Laravel from Scratch course:

https://laracasts.com/series/laravel-6-from-scratch

If you know the basics but don't know how to create a layout to render the same sidebar in any page, maybe you can skip to the "Layout Pages" episode:

https://laracasts.com/series/laravel-6-from-scratch/episodes/14

Hope this helps!

Hi, I've watched the videos and it turns out that the episode 18 is the one I need but I don't succeed in displaying my menu on my view.

So far I now have MIGRATION :

 public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('menus', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->string('navText'); 
            $table->string('icon'); 
            $table->string('href'); 
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

CONTROLLER :

 <?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use DB;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class MenuController extends Controller
{
    public function showMenus()
    {
        $menus = DB::table('menus')->get();
        return view("dashboard", ['menus' => $menus]);
    }
}

VIEW :

@inject ('menus', 'App\Http\Controllers\MenuController')
{{$menus['NavText']}}

<div id="sidebar">
    <ul>
        @foreach ($menus as $menu)
        <li>
            <a href="{{$menus -> href }}" <i class="{{ $menu -> icon }}">{{ $menu -> navText }}</i>
            </a>
        </li>
        @endforeach
    </ul>
</div>

In my database I have

ID     navText 		 icon 			 href 
1	Dashboard	fas fa-archway	/dashboard