Laravel admin | Customize the head navigation bar

Add elements to the left
Add elements to the right

Since version 1.5.6, you can add the html element to the top navigation bar, open app/Admin/bootstrap.php：

use Encore\Admin\Facades\Admin;

Admin::navbar(function (\Encore\Admin\Widgets\Navbar $navbar) {

    $navbar->left('html...');

    $navbar->right('html...');

});

method left nad right方is used to add the contents of the left and right sides of the head, the method parameters can be any object can be rendered( objects which impletements Htmlable、Renderable, or has method __toString()) or strings.

Add elements to the left

For example, add a search bar on the left, first create a view resources/views/search-bar.blade.php：

<style>

.search-form {
    width: 250px;
    margin: 10px 0 0 20px;
    border-radius: 3px;
    float: left;
}
.search-form input[type="text"] {
    color: #666;
    border: 0;
}

.search-form .btn {
    color: #999;
    background-color: #fff;
    border: 0;
}

</style>

<form action="/admin/posts" method="get" class="search-form" pjax-container>
    <div class="input-group input-group-sm ">
        <input type="text" name="title" class="form-control" placeholder="Search...">
        <span class="input-group-btn">
            <button type="submit" name="search" id="search-btn" class="btn btn-flat"><i class="fa fa-search"></i></button>
          </span>
    </div>
</form>

Then add it to the head navigation bar:

$navbar->left(view('search-bar'));

Add elements to the right

You can only add the <li> tag on the right side of the navigation, such as adding some prompt icons, creating a new rendering class app/Admin/Extensions/Nav/Links.php

<?php

namespace App\Admin\Extensions\Nav;

class Links
{
    public function __toString()
    {
        return <<<HTML

<li>
    <a href="#">
      <i class="fa fa-envelope-o"></i>
      <span class="label label-success">4</span>
    </a>
</li>

<li>
    <a href="#">
      <i class="fa fa-bell-o"></i>
      <span class="label label-warning">7</span>
    </a>
</li>

<li>
    <a href="#">
      <i class="fa fa-flag-o"></i>
      <span class="label label-danger">9</span>
    </a>
</li>

HTML;
    }
}

Then add it to the head navigation bar:

$navbar->right(new \App\Admin\Extensions\Nav\Links());

Or use the following html to add a drop-down menu:

<li class="dropdown notifications-menu">
<a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-expanded="false">
  <i class="fa fa-bell-o"></i>
  <span class="label label-warning">10</span>
</a>
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
  <li class="header">You have 10 notifications</li>
  <li>
    <!-- inner menu: contains the actual data -->
    <ul class="menu">
      <li>
        <a href="#">
          <i class="fa fa-users text-aqua"></i> 5 new members joined today
        </a>
      </li>
      <li>
        <a href="#">
          <i class="fa fa-warning text-yellow"></i> Very long description here that may not fit into the
          page and may cause design problems
        </a>
      </li>
      <li>
        <a href="#">
          <i class="fa fa-users text-red"></i> 5 new members joined
        </a>
      </li>

      <li>
        <a href="#">
          <i class="fa fa-shopping-cart text-green"></i> 25 sales made
        </a>
      </li>
      <li>
        <a href="#">
          <i class="fa fa-user text-red"></i> You changed your username
        </a>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li class="footer"><a href="#">View all</a></li>
</ul>
</li>

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