Breadcrumbs
As an aid to site navigation many sites have chosen to use breadcrumbs to help users get about. Breadcrumbs are are like the breadcrumb trail in Hansel and Gretyl and create a trail of links starting from the home page to the current directory or controller. Each link created allows the user to easily navigate back up the breadcrumb trail to find their way home.
<?php
/**
*
* @Create Breadcrumbs Trail.
*
* @copyright Copyright (C) 2008 PHPRO.ORG. All rights reserved.
*
* @version //autogentag//
*
* @license new bsd http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
*
* @filesource
*
* @package Breadcrumbs
*
* @Author Kevin Waterson
*
*/
class breadcrumbs{
/*
* @string $breadcrumbs
*/
public $breadcrumbs;
/*
* @string $pointer
*/
private $pointer = '»';
/*
* @string $url
*/
private $url;
/*
* @array $parts
*/
private $parts;
/*
* @constructor - duh
*
* @access public
*
*/
public function __construct()
{
$this->setParts();
$this->setURL();
$this->breadcrumbs = '<a href="'.$this->url.'">Home</a>';
}
/*
*
* @set the base url
*
* @access private
*
*/
private function setURL()
{
$protocol = $_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"]=='HTTP/1.1' ? 'http' : 'https';
$this->url = $protocol.'://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
}
/*
* @set the pointer
*
* @access public
*
* @param string $pointer
*
*/
public function setPointer($pointer)
{
$this->pointer = $pointer;
}
/**
*
* @set the path array
*
* @access private
*
* @return array
*
*/
private function setParts()
{
$parts = explode('/', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
array_pop($parts);
array_shift($parts);
$this->parts = $parts;
}
/**
*
* @create the breadcrumbs
*
* @access public
*
*/
public function crumbs()
{
foreach($this->parts as $part)
{
$this->url .= "/$part";
$this->breadcrumbs .= " $this->pointer ".'<a href="'.$this->url.'">'.$part.'</a>';
}
}
} /*** end of class ***/
?>
Example Usage
<?php
/*** a new breadcrumbs object ***/
$bc = new breadcrumbs;
/*** set the pointer if you like ***/
$bc->setPointer('->');
/*** create the trail ***/
$bc->crumbs();
/*** output ***/
echo $bc->breadcrumbs;
?>