LaraBreadcrumb

LaraBreadcrumb is a Laravel package that simplifies the creation of breadcrumbs in Laravel applications.

NOTE

This was my first attempt at using Laravel containers and services. If you have any suggestions for improvement, please let me know.

Table of Contents

• Requirements
• Installation
• Basic Usage
  • Displaying Breadcrumbs
  • Customizing Breadcrumbs
  • Prefixing Breadcrumbs
  • Hiding Breadcrumbs
  • Disabling Breadcrumbs
  • Translating Breadcrumbs
  • Publishing Views
• Contributing
• Changelog
• License
• Contact Information
• Credits
• Acknowledgments

Requirements

• PHP 8.1 or higher
• Laravel 10.0 or higher

Installation

To install LaraBreadcrumb, use the following command:

composer require bored-programmers/larabreadcrumb

Basic Usage

By default, LaraBreadcrumb generates breadcrumbs automatically based on the route. It uses the route parameter values as the breadcrumb titles. For example, for a route like admin/customers/1, it generates a breadcrumb like this: Admin / Customers / 1.

Displaying Breadcrumbs

<x-larabreadcrumb::breadcrumb/>

Customizing Breadcrumbs

For a route like Route::get('/users/{customer}'), LaraBreadcrumb generates a breadcrumb like this: Users / 1. To customize the breadcrumb, you can use the BreadcrumbService class:

use BoredProgrammers\LaraBreadcrumb\Service\BreadcrumbService;

BreadcrumbService::update()
    ->setAccessors([
        'customer' => fn($model) => $model->name
        'customer' => fn(User $user) => $user->name
        'customer' => 'name'
    ]);
])

This generates a breadcrumb like this: Users / John. The key customer is the name of the route parameter, and the value is the accessor. You can use a closure or a string.

You can also add a single accessor conditionally:

use BoredProgrammers\LaraBreadcrumb\Service\BreadcrumbService;

BreadcrumbService::update()
    ->setAccessors([
        'customer' => fn($model) => $model->name
        'customer' => fn(User $user) => $user->name
        'customer' => 'name'
    ]);
])

if (true) {
  BreadcrumbService::update()
      ->addAccessor('customer', fn($model) => $model->name);
  ])
}

Prefixing Breadcrumbs

By default, breadcrumbs don't have a prefix. To add a prefix to the breadcrumbs, use the BreadcrumbService class:

use BoredProgrammers\LaraBreadcrumb\Service\BreadcrumbService;

# Route::get('/users/{user}/comments/{comment}');

BreadcrumbService::update()
    ->setPrefix('breadcrumb');
])

This generates a breadcrumb like this: breadcrumb.users / 1 / breadcrumb.comments / 1.

Note: It's recommended to use a prefix when using translation to prevent conflicts. For example, for a route like Route::get('admin/users'), it generates a breadcrumb like this: admin / users. This isn't a problem until you have a translation file admin.php. Then it gives you an error array to string conversion.

Hiding Breadcrumbs

You can hide certain breadcrumbs:

use BoredProgrammers\LaraBreadcrumb\Service\BreadcrumbService;

// Route::get('/users/{user}/comments/{comment}');

 $breadcrumbs = BreadcrumbService::update()->hide('comments');
 $breadcrumbs = BreadcrumbService::update()->hide(['comments', 'users']);

This hides the comments breadcrumb. The first result will be Users / {user} / {comment}, and the second will be {user} / {comment}.

To hide dynamic segments, use curly braces {}:

use BoredProgrammers\LaraBreadcrumb\Service\BreadcrumbService;

// Route::get('/users/{user}/comments/{comment}');

 $breadcrumbs = BreadcrumbService::update()->hide('{comment}');
 $breadcrumbs = BreadcrumbService::update()->hide(['{user}', '{comment}']);

This hides the dynamic segment from the breadcrumb. The first result will be Users / {user} / Comments, and the second will be Users / Comments.

Disabling Breadcrumbs

You can disable click events on certain breadcrumbs.

Note: This doesn't hide the link; it only disables the click event.

use BoredProgrammers\LaraBreadcrumb\Service\BreadcrumbService;

// Route::get('/users/{user}/comments/{comment}');

 $breadcrumbs = BreadcrumbService::update()->disable('comments');
 $breadcrumbs = BreadcrumbService::update()->disable(['comments', 'users']);

After this, you won't be able to click on the comments breadcrumb in the first example and on the comments and users breadcrumbs in the second example.

To disable dynamic segments, use curly braces {}:

use BoredProgrammers\LaraBreadcrumb\Service\BreadcrumbService;

// Route::get('/users/{user}/comments/{comment}');

 $breadcrumbs = BreadcrumbService::update()->disable('{comment}');
 $breadcrumbs = BreadcrumbService::update()->disable(['{user}', '{comment}']);

After this, you won't be able to click on the comment breadcrumb in the first example and on the user and comment breadcrumbs in the second example.

Translating Breadcrumbs

You can translate certain breadcrumbs or all breadcrumbs by default:

use BoredProgrammers\LaraBreadcrumb\Service\BreadcrumbService;

// Translate certain segments
BreadcrumbService::update()->translate('users');
BreadcrumbService::update()->translate(['users', 'comments']);

// Translate all segments by default
BreadcrumbService::update()->translateAll();

If you want to translate all breadcrumbs but don't want to translate certain segments, you can use the dontTranslate method:

use BoredProgrammers\LaraBreadcrumb\Service\BreadcrumbService;

BreadcrumbService::update()->translateAll(true);

// Don't translate certain segments
BreadcrumbService::update()->dontTranslate('users');
BreadcrumbService::update()->dontTranslate(['users', 'comments']);

This ensures that the 'users' segment isn't translated in the first example, and the 'users' and 'comments' segments aren't translated in the second example, even if translateAll is set to true.

If you want to translate dynamic segments, you must use curly braces {}.

use BoredProgrammers\LaraBreadcrumb\Service\BreadcrumbService;

// Route::get('/users/{user}/comments/{comment}');

BreadcrumbService::update()->translate('{user}');
BreadcrumbService::update()->translate(['{user}', '{comment}']);

Publishing views

If you want to customize the views, you can publish them with this command:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=larabreadcrumb-views

Contributing

We welcome contributions to LaraBreadcrumb. If you'd like to contribute, please fork the repository, make your changes, and submit a pull request. We have a few requirements for contributions:

• Follow the PSR-2 coding standard.
• Only use pull requests for contributions.

Changelog

For a detailed history of changes, see releases on GitHub.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.

Contact Information

For any questions or concerns, please feel free to create a discussion on GitHub.

Credits

Created by Matěj Černý from Bored Programmers.

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank all the contributors who have helped to make LaraBreadcrumb a better package.