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[Anon]

Hi there 🙂

I've seen a lot of websites that have a line where they show the depth of the current page with a link to each of the previows levels, like:

Home>USA>Texas>Houston>High Schools

Can anybody guide me as how to start with something similar?

Does each level have to be a diferent directory on my server, or they can be calls to diferent functions on the same page?

Regards

Guillermo

[Anon]

I do it with arrays, and a function call on the top of each page. This requires maintence if you move the page, so I'm not sure this is ideal.

<?
// Define your page and it's parents
$curpage = "Current News";
$parents = Array(
Array("Home","/index.php"),
Array("News","/news/index.php")
);
writeCrumbs($curpage, $parents);
?>

<?
// This function would reside in a general
// include file
function writeCrumbs($curpage, $parents)
{
for($i = 0; $i < count($parents); $i++)
{
list($name, $url) = $parents[$i];
echo "<a href=\"$url\">$name</a> &gt;";
}
echo $curpage;
}
?>

You would need to format the links how you wanted and there could be better ways to do this like I said above.

Good Luck!

Jack

[Anon]

Thanks Jack,

That's more than a good start 😉

Guillermo