Menu customization function

Hi there,

This seems like a great and fairly complex project!

Probably there are a numerous ways to achieve this, but here is 1 suggestion:

• You can create a set of different templates that your customers will be able to choose from. You can store your menu templates as blade files in a directory like resources/views/menues and add the different templates in there, eg variant1.blade.php, variant2.blade.php and etc.
• Each template will include the Tailwind CSS design and users will just have to add their menu items

You can dynamically return a specific blade view in Laravel based on the selected menu template.

Assume that the user selection corresponds to a blade view file in your resources/views/menus directory. For example, if the user selects "variant1", there should be a variant1.blade.php file in the directory.

Here's how you could implement it in your controller:

public function show($template)
{
    // First, validate that the template view exists
    if (!view()->exists("menus.$template")) {
        abort(404);  // Or return a default view, or an error...
    }

    // Retrieve the necessary data for the menu (categories, items, etc.)
    $data = $this->getMenuData();

    // Return the view
    return view("menus.$template", ['data' => $data]);
}

Tony had a video series on building a similar but mich simpler version of this with notification bars with different designs. You can take a look at the videos here:

Building a SaaS

In video 14 you can see a quick preview of what this looks like:

https://youtu.be/hcZAOZhQzBY?t=1236

It is a much simpler version of what you've described but the overall idea is quite similar.

Besides the main templates, the customizations themselves, could be handled with Livewire, for example:

• Livewire Component: CustomizeTemplate.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Livewire;

use Livewire\Component;
use App\Models\Template;

class CustomizeTemplate extends Component
{
    public Template $template;
    public $font;
    public $color;

    public function mount(Template $template)
    {
        $this->template = $template;
        $this->font = $template->font;
        $this->color = $template->color;
    }

    public function render()
    {
        return view('livewire.customize-template');
    }

    public function update()
    {
        $this->validate([
            'font' => 'required|string|max:255',
            'color' => 'required|string|max:255',
        ]);

        $this->template->update([
            'font' => $this->font,
            'color' => $this->color,
        ]);

        return redirect()->route('template.show', $this->template);
    }
}

• View: livewire/customize-template.blade.php

<div>
    <h1>Customize Template: {{ $template->name }}</h1>
    
    <div>
        <label for="font">Font:</label>
        <input type="text" id="font" wire:model="font">
    </div>
    
    <div>
        <label for="color">Color:</label>
        <input type="text" id="color" wire:model="color">
    </div>
    
    <button wire:click="update">Save Changes</button>
</div>

Hope that this helps you as a generic suggestion! Implementing any visual customizations with what Tails offers would be more challenging, but allowing the users to change founts, colors and etc should be straight forward!

Good luck with your Project!

Best,

Bobby