How do you get breadcrumbs to show the current page?

Find your breadcrumb in page.php.tpl and edit the line to read:

<?php print $breadcrumb ?><?php if ($title != ""): ?>&raquo; <?php print $title ?><?php endif; ?>

You will need to wrap this in a div class or id tag and style the class or id in your style.css file to include display: inline. This will add the current page title to the end of the breadcrumb, without a link, which is the norm I've seen on many sites.

Hope this helps!

.:| Laura • pingV |:.

I have seen more standard practice in the direction of showing the actual page as unlinked text. Go through the Yahoo directories, for example, and you will see the current directory listed right there at the end of the breadcrumbs.

I looked at the article you cited. It has some interesting ideas, but I would beg to differ on the issue of breadcrumbs.

Try viewing a node: you will see that the breadcrumb trail includes the parent terms of that page, but that the current page itself is not included. This is how it should be: you don't want the current page at the end of the breadcrumb, because you can determine the current page by looking at the title!

That depends on your site design. If your title is right there, then you're right, perhaps it's not needed. But if your title is far away from the breadcrumbs, it's a different story.

And also, each part of the breadcrumb trail is a link, so if the current page is part of the trail, then every page on your site has a link to itself (very unprofessional).

Ah, but there is no link for the current page -- it's just text.

To me, in the article cited there are assumptions about design and blanket rules that don't always apply. AFAIK, there's no consensus against the current page's being included in breadcrumbs. If there were, you could consider me a rebel for not automatically marching in step. ;)

.:| Laura • pingV |:.

If you use it to point users where they are NOW, then including the current page is a good thing (see it as that "you are here mark" on maps).

But one should carefully consider whether or not to make it a link.

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I disagree, anything but showing the current document name is very confusing, for a number of reasons.

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Beyond anyone's personal preference for how it ought to be done, or whether it's considered good form to have a self-referential link on a page, I can see no factor more significant than what a search engine needs or wants to see on a site to determine what should be presented. The SEO folks that my company is working with are telling me that breadcrumbs are incredibly important for spidering, and who am I to disagree? I just want to deliver the destination needed so that their targeting will work optimally.

Specifically, according to this way of looking at it, the highest order qualifier should not be "home", but should probably be the domain. And the lowest order should in fact be the page you're on.

I am incredibly new to Drupal, and now apparently I need to install something I don't have, as I have not made myself aware of any plugin modules until the need has arisen. Now that the need has arisen, I'm a little surprised that I have to use taxonomy or install something like phpTemplate in order to create effective breadcrumbs, but so be it. At least – and this is a very very good and big thing – there is a community of developers out there who can and will and have the knowledge to share with others. Thanks everyone.

I guess all those signs, worldwide, that have local map which points out where you are with a "You Are Here" on it are considered bad too? lol

I think looking at the breadcrumbs to see exactly where you are is handy sometimes. :-)

The link posted by venkat-rk in the comment “It is considered bad“ is now dead.

One of my students pointed out to me that Jakob Nielsen argues that for reason of consistency, breadcrumbs should always, quote:

“Breadcrumbs are almost always implemented the same way, with a horizontal line that

• progresses from the highest level to the lowest, one step at a time;
• starts with the homepage and ends with the current page;
• has a simple text link for each level (except for the current page [...]); and
• has a simple, one-character separator between the levels (usually ">").”

Unquote, my italics.

Source: http://www.nngroup.com/articles/breadcrumb-navigation-useful/

if you don't mind that the breadcrumb for the current page is a clickable link, then it is as simple as commenting out this line in menu.inc in function menu_get_active_breadcrumb()

array_pop($links);

it doesn't work quite right for project_issues but generally it's great

A nice hook that requires no code changes, thankyou for that.

I've stopped using breadcrumbs for a more fundamental reason. I opened a new thread for it http://drupal.org/node/64348

This is how breadcrumbs should work imho.

What's the best way to get this added to the PHPTemplate Theme Snippets section of the handbook?

-zach
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Thanks for the code suggestion, which I put in my template.php, and it works.

I'm with the camp that likes 'home' and the 'current page' in the bread crumb trail, to help site visitors (generally not expert surfers in my case) understand at least one area of the site they may be in.

I'm less sure how to make the current page "gray" using the style sheet while keeping the carrots black (which I like to do to make it even more obvious that it is the 'current page' location).

For some reason, the » (>>) turned into a question mark, so I substituted a single > in the suggested code, and that makes all the separators into single >, which is my preference anyway.

-Karl

Thanks Bèr, yours is a nice solution.
It is worth adding that to make this snippet work it is necessary to substitute 'mytheme' in the function with the actual theme name. :-)

Thanks for that. I had to replace ' » ' with ' » ' to get the proper delimiter thingy.

If there is a "&" in the title of the node, I do get a "&" in the breadcrumb.

I found the following solution here http://drupal.org/node/344449:

- $breadcrumb[] = l(drupal_get_title(), $_GET['q']);
+ $breadcrumb[] = l(drupal_get_title(), $_GET['q'], array('html' => TRUE,));

Unfortunately it doesn't work. I still get a "&" in the breadcrumb. Is it because of I am using D5, and the patch is for D6?

Thanks for your help.

If you want your breadcrumbs to follow your taxonomy structure, check out taxonomy_breadcrumb. After installing, you can go to /admin/settings/taxonomy_breadcrumb to remove (or change) the "Home" breadcrumb.

The following override also works quite simply to remove the first element from the breadcrumb trail. Put the code in your theme's template.php .

function phptemplate_breadcrumb($breadcrumb) {
  if (!empty($breadcrumb)) {
      $breadcrumb[] = drupal_get_title();
        array_shift($breadcrumb);
        return '<div class="breadcrumb">'. implode(' &#187; ', $breadcrumb) .'</div>';
  }
}

don't forget to expand the '»' back out to '& #187;' (no space) in the code.

The easiest way to remove the breadcrumb is to change the drupal.css.

In drupal\misc edit drupal.css and change

.breadcrumb {
  padding-bottom: .5em;
}

to

.breadcrumb {
  padding-bottom: .5em;
  display: none;
}

Et voilà, the breadcrumb doesn't appear anymore if the theme doesn't override the basic CSS with "display: something ! important;".

the taxonomy breadcrumbs took care of this issue

Hi,

I have tried using phptemplate_breadcrumb() function to manipulate the breadcrumb but there is no change in the pages.

Can anyone help on how to change the breadcrumbs on the pages?

I have only added the above function in the template.php file.

Thanks in Advance
Karunakar

Put the following in your themes (or my Omega sub-theme in my case) template.php

function yourthemename_breadcrumb($variables) {
  $breadcrumb = $variables['breadcrumb'];
  // Determine if we are to display the breadcrumb.
  $show_breadcrumb = theme_get_setting('yourthemename_breadcrumb');
  if ($show_breadcrumb == 'yes' || $show_breadcrumb == 'admin' && arg(0) == 'admin') {

    // Optionally get rid of the homepage link.
    $show_breadcrumb_home = theme_get_setting('yourthemename_breadcrumb_home');
    if (!$show_breadcrumb_home) {
      array_shift($breadcrumb);
    }

    // Return the breadcrumb with separators.
    if (!empty($breadcrumb)) {
      $breadcrumb_separator = theme_get_setting('yourthemename_breadcrumb_separator');
      $trailing_separator = $title = '';
      if (theme_get_setting('yourthemename_breadcrumb_title')) {
        $item = menu_get_item();
        if (!empty($item['tab_parent'])) {
          // If we are on a non-default tab, use the tab's title.
          $title = check_plain($item['title']);
        }
        else {
          $title = drupal_get_title();
        }
        if ($title) {
          $trailing_separator = $breadcrumb_separator;
        }
      }
      elseif (theme_get_setting('yourthemename_breadcrumb_trailing')) {
        $trailing_separator = $breadcrumb_separator;
      }

      // Provide a navigational heading to give context for breadcrumb links to
      // screen-reader users.
      if (empty($variables['title'])) {
        $variables['title'] = t('You are here');
      }
      // Unless overridden by a preprocess function, make the heading invisible.
      if (!isset($variables['title_attributes_array']['class'])) {
        $variables['title_attributes_array']['class'][] = 'element-invisible';
      }
      $heading = '<h2' . drupal_attributes($variables['title_attributes_array']) . '>' . $variables['title'] . '</h2>';

      return '<div class="breadcrumb">' . $heading . implode($breadcrumb_separator, $breadcrumb) . $trailing_separator . $title . '</div>';
    }
  }
  // Otherwise, return an empty string.
  return '';
}

Put the following in your themes theme.settings.php

function yourthemename_form_system_theme_settings_alter(&$form, $form_state) {
  /*
   * Create the form using Forms API
   */
  $form['breadcrumb'] = array(
    '#type'          => 'fieldset',
    '#title'         => t('Breadcrumb settings'),
  );
  $form['breadcrumb']['yourthemename_breadcrumb'] = array(
    '#type'          => 'select',
    '#title'         => t('Display breadcrumb'),
    '#default_value' => theme_get_setting('yourthemename_breadcrumb'),
    '#options'       => array(
                          'yes'   => t('Yes'),
                          'admin' => t('Only in admin section'),
                          'no'    => t('No'),
                        ),
  );
  $form['breadcrumb']['breadcrumb_options'] = array(
    '#type' => 'container',
    '#states' => array(
      'invisible' => array(
        ':input[name="yourthemename_breadcrumb"]' => array('value' => 'no'),
      ),
    ),
  );
  $form['breadcrumb']['breadcrumb_options']['yourthemename_breadcrumb_separator'] = array(
    '#type'          => 'textfield',
    '#title'         => t('Breadcrumb separator'),
    '#description'   => t('Text only. Don’t forget to include spaces.'),
    '#default_value' => theme_get_setting('yourthemename_breadcrumb_separator'),
    '#size'          => 5,
    '#maxlength'     => 10,
  );
  $form['breadcrumb']['breadcrumb_options']['yourthemename_breadcrumb_home'] = array(
    '#type'          => 'checkbox',
    '#title'         => t('Show home page link in breadcrumb'),
    '#default_value' => theme_get_setting('yourthemename_breadcrumb_home'),
  );
  $form['breadcrumb']['breadcrumb_options']['yourthemename_breadcrumb_trailing'] = array(
    '#type'          => 'checkbox',
    '#title'         => t('Append a separator to the end of the breadcrumb'),
    '#default_value' => theme_get_setting('yourthemename_breadcrumb_trailing'),
    '#description'   => t('Useful when the breadcrumb is placed just before the title.'),
    '#states' => array(
      'disabled' => array(
        ':input[name="yourthemename_breadcrumb_title"]' => array('checked' => TRUE),
      ),
      'unchecked' => array(
        ':input[name="yourthemename_breadcrumb_title"]' => array('checked' => TRUE),
      ),
    ),
  );
  $form['breadcrumb']['breadcrumb_options']['yourthemename_breadcrumb_title'] = array(
    '#type'          => 'checkbox',
    '#title'         => t('Append the content title to the end of the breadcrumb'),
    '#default_value' => theme_get_setting('yourthemename_breadcrumb_title'),
    '#description'   => t('Useful when the breadcrumb is not placed just before the title.'),
  );

}

put the following in your theme.info file

settings[yourthemename_breadcrumb]           = yes
settings[yourthemename_breadcrumb_separator] = ' › '
settings[yourthemename_breadcrumb_home]      = 1
settings[yourthemename_breadcrumb_trailing]  = 1
settings[yourthemename_breadcrumb_title]     = 0

replace all instances of yourthemename_ (with your actual theme name!)

then goto Configuration -> Performance and flush cache
then goto Appearance -> settings (for your theme) - you should see new options for editing breadcrumbs