too much myself, but it should work for you.
Bernd VanSkiver
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From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 1:34 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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