How to access child menu items in Backpack for Laravel?-CodePudding

I installed the MenuCRUD from the Backpack Add-On list:
https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/MenuCRUD#usage-in-your-template

and I put the example code into my blade, but it only shows the first level menu items, as expected.

This is the code I use:

@foreach (\Backpack\MenuCRUD\app\Models\MenuItem::getTree() as $item)
  <a class="text-gray-500 hover:text-gray-500" href="{{$item->url()}}">{{ $item->name }}</a>
@endforeach

now the documentation states that I should use $item->children to access the children of the menu items. I tried it with the following code:

@foreach (\Backpack\MenuCRUD\app\Models\MenuItem::getTree() as $item)
      <a class="text-gray-500 hover:text-gray-500" href="{{$item->url()}}">{{ $item->children->name }}</a>
@endforeach

but it gives me this error Property [name] does not exist on this collection instance. But I can see [NAME] inside the array list.

      [ORIGINAL:PROTECTED] => ARRAY
                    (
                        [ID] => 6
                        [NAME] => Testing-Name
                        [TYPE] => INTERNAL_LINK
                        [LINK] => /TEST/LINK1
                        [PAGE_ID] => 
                        [PARENT_ID] => 2
                        [LFT] => 
                        [RGT] => 
                        [DEPTH] => 
                        [CREATED_AT] => 2021-11-06 10:20:20
                        [UPDATED_AT] => 2021-11-06 10:20:20
                        [DELETED_AT] => 
                    )

I called the debugging above over:

@foreach (\Backpack\MenuCRUD\app\Models\MenuItem::getTree() as $item)
   {{print_r($item->children)}}
@endforeach

how can I call the children?

CodePudding user response：

if you take a look at the https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/MenuCRUD/blob/b4a64a454985f8203efa166a2d5dfebc304d2a48/src/app/Models/MenuItem.php#L34

the method you call returns a collection of menu items. Each menu item has an array of children. This is what actually your debug info shows.

So you should do smth like that:

@foreach (\Backpack\MenuCRUD\app\Models\MenuItem::getTree() as $parent)

    @foreach ($parent->children as $child)

    @endforeach     

@endforeach