bread Crumb.
home_section_subsection_page cfm = Home >> Section >> Subsection >> Page
We have done variations based on aberrations that relate to full bread Crumb
titles in a database.
hm_sec_sub_pg.cfm = Home >> Section >> Subsection >> Page
If your nav is totally database driven then it is real simple to build bread
Crumbs. All you have to do is to look up the parent of the current page
then check to see if that page has a parent ..
Mark W. Breneman
-Cold Fusion Developer
-Network Administrator
Vivid Media
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www.vividmedia.com
608.270.9770
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From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 2:34 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Bread Crumb Trail with CFMX
What are you trying to accomplish? Setting up the navigation or storing the
results?
The simple breadcrumb trail is completely determined by the author-defined
hierarchy of pages. You define "this page is in this sub-section which is
in this section" and create three links to represent that. Something like:
Home >> Section >> Subsection >> Page
You can drive this solely by directory structure if you're set up that way,
by page-level parameters if your pages are distinct, by template level
parameters if you're content is parametized, etc - it really depends on your
site structure and the detail of your definition.
_javascript_ isn't be as nice an option, I think, since this really is a
server-side decision. (That being said I just finished a _javascript_
implementation of a breadcrumb trail/navigation scheme for the office.)
Now the other style of breadcrumbs which is rarely seen (but ironically
matches the "breadcrumb" metaphor much better) is the clickstream. In this
case you display the specific users path the current information, regardless
of how you (the author) have organized things. This is as simple as
creating a session-scoped array. You just place each page visiting into the
array and then, on demand, display the links.
I do something like this at www.depressedpress.com
<http://www.depressedpress.com/> (visit a few pages and then choose "Your
Clickstream" from the left). I do this mostly for myself (I store the
clickstream in the database at the end of the session) but also make it
available to the end user.
In the end this really isn't something that can be "tacked on" using a
pre-canned thing but rather something that's pretty much determined by how
you've set up your site. Give us details on that and we should be able to
point you in the right direction.
Jim Davis
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From: Merritt Chapman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 2:29 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Bread Crumb Trail with CFMX
Does anyone know where I can find a good example of a cf driven bread crumb
trail? Maybe a _javascript_ version?
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