crumbs path generation

Thursday 20 February 2003 6:14:20 am

I vagualy remember reading a mail/page here somewhere where someone gave a sollution for generating a crumbs-path to the current page.
Something alike $node.path_identification_string but then with clickable items.

As I cannot find that code/page/message back, does anybody know what I'm talking about OR have a sollution? For now I only see a recursive sollution and as I'm still in a load of problems with simple sequences it's somewhat above my abbilities for now.

Thanks,
Gerhard

Thursday 20 February 2003 7:35:24 am

> > I vagualy remember reading a mail/page here somewhere
> where
> > someone gave a sollution for generating a crumbs-path to
> the
> > current page.
> > Something alike $node.path_identification_string but
> then
> > with clickable items.
> >
> > As I cannot find that code/page/message back, does
> anybody
> > know what I'm talking about OR have a sollution? For now
> I
> > only see a recursive sollution and as I'm still in a load
> of
> > problems with simple sequences it's somewhat above my
> > abbilities for now.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gerhard
>
> Hi,
>
> whats a crumbs path?
>
> Karsten

A navigation concept.

Something like

/ people > those who eat bread > and drop the crumbs to find their way back > Karsten

where you can click on the items to go "up" one or more levels. It also makes visible where you are and how you got there. Hence the "breadcrumbs" like in the classic fairy tale (Hans en Grietje in Dutch/Femish)

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Thursday 20 February 2003 2:18:13 pm

> > where you can click on the items to go "up" one or more
> > levels. It also makes visible where you are and how you
> got
> > there. Hence the "breadcrumbs" like in the classic fairy
> > tale (Hans en Grietje in Dutch/Femish)
>
> The story which I, purely coincidential, read to my children
> tonight..;)
>
> For me it is a major piece of two concepts which I find very
> important within usability. The first is the navigational
> part. Imho navigation consists out of 3 pieces, where am I,
> how did I come here and where can I go. Crumbs solve the
> second item.
>
> The second use is that it enables the user to learn about
> the overal structure of the site. With every use, the site
> becomes more charted territory and less undiscovered land.
>
> Anyhow, my problem is that it's easy to find the parent of
> the current node.. So till 3 levels (root/parent/current)
> deep it's easy, but after that the problems start.
> In PHP I would simply make a do {} while loop and keep a
> pointer until it reaches the root. But how to do something
> like that in the template language. I thought I saw a
> sollution here somewhere, but cannot find it back..
>
> So if anyone has a sollution/pointer..

I'm guessing you are looking for something like this...

{section name=Path loop=$module_result.path offset=2 show=eq($DesignKeys:used.viewmode,'full')}
{section show=$Path:item.url}
<a class="small" href={$Path:item.url|ezurl}>{$Path:item.text}</a>
{section-else}
<span class="small">{$Path:item.text}</span>
{/section}

{delimiter}
<span class="small">/</span>
{/delimiter}
{section-else}
{section name=Path loop=$module_result.path}
{section show=$Path:Path:item.url}
<a class="small" href={$Path:item.url|ezurl}>{$Path:Path:item.text}</a>
{section-else}
<span class="small">{$Path:Path:item.text}</span>
{/section}

{delimiter}
<span class="small">/</span>
{/delimiter}
{/section}
{/section}

...taken from the demo templates.

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Saturday 21 February 2004 10:35:03 am

oops, nevermind.