Handling active menu item in Laravel 5

Put this in your helper file:

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function set_active( $route ) {
if( is_array( $route ) ){
return in_array(Request::path(), $route) ? 'active' : '';
}
return Request::path() == $route ? 'active' : '';
}

Usage:

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<li class = "{{ set_active('admin/users') }}">
<a href="{{ url('/admin/users/') }}">Users</a>
</li>

Multi-level:

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<li class="{{ set_active(['admin/items', Request::is('admin/auction/*'), 'admin/something']) }}">
<ul>
<li class = "{{ set_active('admin/item') }}">
<a href="{{ url('/admin/item') }}">All</a>
</li>
<li class = "{{ set_active('admin/item/create') }}">
<a href="{{ URL::to('/admin/item/create') }}">Add New</a>
</li>
<li class = "{{ set_active('admin/something') }}">
<a href="{{ URL::to('/admin/something') }}">Something</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>

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