Create breadcrumb trail

[ad2]

ANyone know how to create a breadcrumb trail for a website?

 

[ca8msm]

Yes...are you using a server-side language?


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[ad2]

Yes, PHP

 

[BabyJeffy]

Then you can use PHP to store session variables that represent the pages you have visited... and then output the last X pages in a "breadcrumb trail".

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[ad2]

I would echo the array??? Sorry, new to PHP

 

[BabyJeffy]

I would parse the array and decide which entries to display... and then I would create proper <a href> links for them before echoing to the page.

I expect that if you put together a complete description of what you want to do, and included any relevant details about your requirements, then the nice folks over at the PHP forum forum434 would be able to help.

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Jeff

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[ad2]

Thanks. I'll check that forum out.

 

[Foamcow]

Do you want to show the trail of last X pages visited or, as I would say is more common, show the path to that page from the site homepage?

Storing the page names you have visited as session vars wouldn't help with showing the path from the homepage.



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[ad2]

I want typical folder tree display:

Home > Human Resources > Benifits

Page the user currently is on is vacation.html which resides in the benifits folder.

I think I need an array of the folders. Then some how include the array on each page??? Then echo where the users is based on the array??

 

[BabyJeffy]

Here's something I cooked up earlier...

<?
	$script = trim($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"]);
	$myArr = explode("/", $script);
	$fullDepth = count($myArr);
	$html = '<a href="/">Home</a>';
	for ($loop=1; $loop<$fullDepth-1; $loop++) {
		$html .= ' &gt; ';
		$html .= '<a href="/'.$myArr[$loop].'/">'.ucfirst($myArr[$loop]).'</a>';
	}
	$html .= ' &gt; ';
	$html .= '<b>'.$myArr[$loop].'</b>';
	
	echo $html;
?>

It's not strictly HTML... although it does output HTML

Enjoy,
Jeff

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[ChrisHunt]

How are your pages stored? How is the hierarchy of pages and folders determined?

Oh, and it's ben[red]e[/red]fits.

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

 

[Foamcow]

Dude, <b> tags!
lol

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[ad2]

I think I need to move this to the suggested PHP forum. Thanks to all for your input.

 

[BabyJeffy]

What's wrong with my code, ad2? Does it not do exactly what you want?

@pete - I just *knew* you'd pick up on that

Cheers,
Jeff

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