[thelist] Breadcrumb theory

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Tue Jun 17 22:54:50 CDT 2003


> From: Stephen Rider <evolt_org at striderweb.com>
[...]
> I was contemplating how to make versatile "breadcrumbs" on pages that
> would be flexible enough that you could make them work without
> hard-coding them into each page.  I also didn't want to depend
> Javascript.
[...]
> And that's it.  The clincher is that every file would have the exact
> same include call, and the include's content would thus be determined
> by the include file in each particular directory.
[...]

there's some pre-existing code out there that already does what 
you're looking for, ready to go...

Breadcrumbs for Those Using ASP
http://www.evolt.org/ASP_Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs for All
http://evolt.org/cgi_breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs for PHP Lovers
http://evolt.org/article/Breadcrumbs_for_PHP_Lovers/17/4455/

and just in case...
Breadcrumbs in Javascript
http://evolt.org/article/Breadcrumbs_in_Javascript/17/15480/

you can see the ASP solution in action on my site:
http://roselli.org/adrian/articles/breadcrumbs.asp

-- 
yet another book:
  The Web Professional's Handbook
  http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1904151221/evoltorg02-20
  ISBN: 1904151221





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