laravel如何根据消息设置类

Question

I have a dropdown and I have styled it in a way that the current opened li is colored red.

This dropdown menu locates at the left of the page. and this menu exist in all pages.

All pages just set the content of other div in the page but the menu is always for all of them (I hope you get me).

In the controller I do this:

return View::make('restaurants.admins')->with('admin', $admin)->with('verticalMenu' , 'Admin');

So in the view I want to check this verticalMenu value, if it is admin, I will set admin's li class to open class and so on.

I will show you an example of what I want.

this is li that is closed

<li class="dropdown">
    <a href="javascript:;">
        <i class="fa fa-user"></i> Restaurant <span class="caret"></span>
    </a>
    <!-- more html here -->
</li>

This is li that is opened because it has the class open

<li class="dropdown active opened">
    <a href="javascript:;">
        <i class="fa fa-tasks"></i> Profile <span class="caret"></span>
    </a>
    <!-- more html here -->
</li>

So basically, I need to check the {{$verticalMenu}} before each li, right?, if yes, how please? if no, what is the correct way please?

After your answer

This is the mistake page, please look how the profile li is opened:

![Screen shot of the actual page][1]

This is the good one, where everything is perfect:

Answer 1

The {{ }} basically turns a code like this:

{{ $verticalMenu }} 

Into this:

<?php echo $verticalMenu; ?>

What you are trying to achieve is this:

<?php echo $verticalMenu == 'Admin' ? 'active opened' : '' ?>

So the most straight-forward way to do it with blade syntax is:

<li class="dropdown {{ $vericalMenu == 'Admin' ? 'active opened' : '' }}">
    <!-- The rest of the list content here -->
</li>