Breadcrumb implementation...

drj201 · #1 (**permalink**) 09-03-2008, 07:40 PM

Hi all,

Im a ZF newbie so bare with me. Ive been working with it for a few weeks and love it.

My main problem with it however is the lack of a "right way" of doing things.. there seems to be no agreed structure etc so it makes it extremely difficult when searching for answers on the web.

Basically I am trying to implement a breadcrumb structure into my application. The simple answer might be a view helper that simply takes the current action, controller etc from the URL so example.com/news/uk is transformed into: Home >> News >> UK.

As you are already thinking this is a poor implementation for many obvious reasons. My question then is how would you propose I implement this? Maybe initialise the breadcrumb trail in the front controller? Then add to the trail in respective controller actions? So in front controller I could initialise a trail and add "Home"... then in the NewsController I could assign "News" and then in the UKaction I could assign "UK". Does this sounds viable? How would I initialise this in the front controller?

I really need help on this. Any help appreciated.

Regards,

David

taylord1 · #2 (**permalink**) 09-04-2008, 12:09 PM

Have you seen this article?

Breadcrumbs with Zend Framework | Joey Adams Dot Net

That helped me out with my code.

~Dan

SirAdrian · #3 (**permalink**) 09-05-2008, 05:51 PM

I'm doing mine somewhat manually. At the end of each controller action I have

PHP Code:


			
$this->view->layout()->breadcrumbs = array(

    sprintf('/%s', $this->slug)           => $this->view->league['title'],

    sprintf('/%s/standings', $this->slug) => 'Standings'

);

And in my layout script I do some basic processing, and implode the results to get a nice list of parent pages.

joeyadms · #4 (**permalink**) 10-10-2008, 11:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by taylord1

Have you seen this article?

Breadcrumbs with Zend Framework | Joey Adams Dot Net

That helped me out with my code.

~Dan

<33 Awesome

tmilewski · #5 (**permalink**) 11-03-2008, 04:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drj201

Hi all,

Im a ZF newbie so bare with me. Ive been working with it for a few weeks and love it.

My main problem with it however is the lack of a "right way" of doing things.. there seems to be no agreed structure etc so it makes it extremely difficult when searching for answers on the web.

Basically I am trying to implement a breadcrumb structure into my application. The simple answer might be a view helper that simply takes the current action, controller etc from the URL so example.com/news/uk is transformed into: Home >> News >> UK.

As you are already thinking this is a poor implementation for many obvious reasons. My question then is how would you propose I implement this? Maybe initialise the breadcrumb trail in the front controller? Then add to the trail in respective controller actions? So in front controller I could initialise a trail and add "Home"... then in the NewsController I could assign "News" and then in the UKaction I could assign "UK". Does this sounds viable? How would I initialise this in the front controller?

I really need help on this. Any help appreciated.

Regards,

David

I wrote an article that might just help you:
http://blog.tommilewski.net/2008/10/...dcrumb-helper/

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