Need help with breadcrump issue

robin01

Hello everybody,

I'm writing my own classified script for my website/learning and have to add i'm not the best php programmer, scale 1 to 10 i would put myself at 4 if that.

script background:
the classified script isn't designed for high use and have no interest in making it a full service, its just add on to the website to give my users the option to buy/sell/trade within the site.

I need help creating a breadcrump navigation for my classified script. All the tutorials or the plugins all talk about directory but my script isn't setup in directory format, its a simple script .

MySql DB and a table for the categories, primary category field and a sub category field example:
Vehicles(primary category) -->Cars(subcategory)
primary category is displayed on the main screen.

Need a navigation letting the user know at what category point the user is at, example: Vehicles>>Cars
and should be able to go back to the main categories if the use decided to go back to pick a new one.

I been trying to find a script and trying to figure out how to do this but keep running into a brick wall..

Any help you guys can give would be greatly appreciated
Thanks guys

big_nerd

robin01,

What kind of scripts / tutorials have you tried? What problems are you running into?

If you are a 4 that means you are heading into Intermediate Programming.

If you are famlliar with sessions, this would be the way that you use it.

Setup a session for Category and Sub-Category, have the script check the session variable(s) and post links from there.

You can also make "bookmark friendly" by having it pass parameters to PHP.

i.e. viewad.php?adnum=12345 (to view a specific ad)
viewads.php?cat=1&subcat=2&start=1&end=15 etc etc etc.

You can read the parameters passed to PHP and setup the breadcrumbs, additionally if the user bookmarks the page they will be able to return exactly where they left off.

If you post some code I will be more than happy to help you fix it to suit your needs.

cgraz

Do you have a function that will return a parent given a page id? If so, you can build a recursive function that will generate the breadcrumbs for you. If you don't have a function like that, that would be the first place to start. Post back if you're having trouble.