New Module: taxonomy_breadcrumb

_craig - May 5, 2006 - 18:06

I've just released the beta version of a new module called taxonomy_breadcrumb. This is a relatively simple module that strives to do one thing well: Create customizable a breadcrumb trail on node pages that follow the taxonomy hierarchy. The module allows an administrator to control what is shown in the breadcrumb trail and where individual breadcrumbs link to (either the normal taxonomy/term pages or node/X pages). This allows for a site to have custom taxonomy pages (at least when a user clicks on a breadcrumb). Full details can be found on the project page.

This module leverages off of the existing taxonomy functionality in drupal. It is anticipated that taxonomy based hierarchical sites are most likely to benefit from this module.

I need volunteers to help test and provide feedback. As of today (May 5, 2006) testing has begun and the module is considered feature-complete and usable on non-production 4.7 (or cvs) sites. See the project page for full details or to download and help test. Feedback can be provided and issues can be raised via the normal project tracking mechanism.

Thanks!
Craig

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Hero!

drupalec - May 5, 2006 - 18:10

You are a hero, or you will be if it works. Thank you very much. If there is anything Drupal needs it's this. I'll announce it on our front page and ask people to help you test.
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taxonomy_breadcrumb

_craig - May 5, 2006 - 20:29

Taxonomy_breadcrumb is a fairly small module and it's only purpose is to make breadcrumbs work for taxonomy-driven hierarchical sites. This module builds on top of the existing core taxonomy module. Since I believe the category module is an outright replacement to the core taxonomy module, I imagine the two modules wouldn't really fit together well (someone more familiar with category can correct me). My guess is that if you're using the category module already (and not using the core taxonomy), this isn't for you. However, if you want taxonomy based breadcrumbs and prefer to use the core taxonomy module, check this module out.

My guess is that if you're

venkat-rk - June 17, 2006 - 03:16

My guess is that if you're using the category module already (and not using the core taxonomy), this isn't for you. However, if you want taxonomy based breadcrumbs and prefer to use the core taxonomy module, check this module out.

Not that I am a category module expert, but you are right. Category module implements its own breadcrumbs system, so there is no need to use taxonomy_breadcrumb module (even with category's taxonomy wrapper modules) just to get the breadcrumbs.

taxonomy_breadcrumb and pathauto aren't compatible?

lambert - June 17, 2006 - 02:03

That's my experience. [Duh. The module uses tids. Hmmm....]

My users really require human-readable URLs..

Hmmm... I'm testing tax_breadrcrumb with pathauto

bomarmonk - June 17, 2006 - 02:06

What trouble did you have with it? Can you explain the problem further? I have not noticed any conflicts yet... but would like to avoid them or help the module developers resolve them (even better).

Path aliases should work

_craig - June 17, 2006 - 19:51

I've successfully tested this module with url aliases (although not specifically with path_auto). If you have taxonomy/term/3 aliased to /my/own/path, the breadcrumb trail will respect the alias and use that in the breadcrumb link. Anyone else have success with using taxonomy_breadcrumb and pathauto together?

postgresql support

markusT - July 13, 2006 - 13:11

I am using drupal with postgresql and thought I ll try that module.
It kept me busy for a while to get to the point where I can start to explore the functionality.
Because the install file doens t check if postgresql is used ... thats the part that should do it

case 'pgsql':
db_query("CREATE TABLE {taxonomy_breadcrumb_vocabulary}
(vid integer NOT NULL default '0' PRIMARY KEY,
path char(128) NOT NULL default '')
");

db_query("CREATE TABLE {taxonomy_breadcrumb_term}
(tid integer NOT NULL default '0' PRIMARY KEY,
path char(128) NOT NULL default '')
");

break;

I am pretty new to drupal so I dont realy know why it isn t working but if I am adding the 2 db_query calls above to my themefile it generates the tables without problems....

another issue .... drupal didn't tell me during the installation process of the module that it doesnt support my database.

thanks!

_craig - July 14, 2006 - 02:30

Thanks! I appreciate the code posting since I don't have a postgresql installation to try this myself. Would you mind adding an issue so this can be fixed and tracked to completion?