Breadcrumbs

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What is Breadcrumbs?¶

Breadcrumbs is a simple navigation trail Snippet for MODX Revolution. With it, you can easily add a simple breadcrumb trail anywhere in your pages.

Requirements¶

MODX Revolution 2.0.0-beta5 or later
PHP5 or later

History¶

Breadcrumbs has been around since the start of MODX 0.9.1, or MODX Evolution, with its first release on June 30th, 2006. It has had many different authors since its inception.

Public Releases¶

Version	Date	Author	Product
1.1-beta3	November 23rd, 2009	splittingred	Revolution
1.1-beta2	November 5th, 2009	splittingred	Revolution
1.1-beta1	May 21st, 2009	splittingred	Revolution
1.0-alpha4	April 21st, 2009	splittingred	Revolution
1.0-alpha3	March 24th, 2009	splittingred	Revolution
1.0.1	April 25th, 2008	jaredc	Evolution
1.0.0	April 22nd, 2008	jaredc	Evolution
0.9g	March 26th, 2008	webe	Evolution
0.9f	January 17th, 2008	jaredc	Evolution
0.9e	January 11th, 2008	jaredc	Evolution
0.9d	July 12th, 2006	jaredc	Evolution
0.91	July 10th, 2006	tillda	Evolution
0.9c	June 30th, 2006	jaredc	Evolution

Download¶

It can be downloaded from within the MODX Revolution manager via Package Management, or from the MODX Extras Repository, here: https://modx.com/extras/package/breadcrumbs

Usage¶

The Breadcrumbs snippet can be called using the tags:

[[Breadcrumbs]]

Breadcrumbs Properties¶

Name	Description	Default
crumbSeparator	Define what you want between the crumbs.	»
currentAsLink	If you want the current page crumb to be a link (to itself) "1" for true, "0" for false (without quotes)	1
descField	To change default page field to be used as a breadcrumb description, default is description. Falls back to pagetitle if description is empty.	description
homeCrumbDescription	In case you want to have a custom description of the home link. Defaults to title of home link.	Home
homeCrumbTitle	Just in case you want to have a home link, but want to call it something else.	Home
maxCrumbs	Max number of elements to have in a path. 100 is an arbitrary high number. If you make it smaller, like say 2, but you are 5 levels deep, it will appear as: Home > ... > Level 4 > Level 5 It should be noted that "Home" and the current page do not count. Each of these are configured separately.	100
maxDelimiter	The string that will show if the maximum number of breadcrumbs has been shown.	...
pathThruUnPub	When your path includes an unpublished folder, setting this to true will show all resources in path EXCEPT the unpublished. Example path (unpublished in caps): home > news > CURRENT > SPORTS > skiiing > article $pathThruUnPub = true would give you this: home > news > skiiing > article $pathThruUnPub = false would give you this: home > skiiing > article (assuming you have home crumb turned on)	1
respectHidemenu	If true, will hide items in the breadcrumbs that are set to be hidden in menus.	1
showCrumbsAtHome	You can use this to toggle the breadcrumbs on the home page.	0
showCurrentCrumb	Show the current page in path.	1
showHomeCrumb	Would you like your crumb string to start with a link to home? Some would not because a home link is usually found in the site logo or elsewhere in the navigation scheme.	1
titleField	To change default page field to be used as a breadcrumb title. Defaults to pagetitle.	pagetitle

Breadcrumbs Classes¶

The output is an unordered list with microdata (see http://diveintohtml5.info/extensibility.html for more information) that can be styled using the following class names.

Classname	Description
B_crumbBox	Span that surrounds all crumb output
B_hideCrumb	Span surrounding the "..." if there are more crumbs than will be shown
B_currentCrumb	Span or A tag surrounding the current crumb
B_firstCrumb	Span that always surrounds the first crumb, whether it is "home" or not
B_lastCrumb	Span surrounding last crumb, whether it is the current page or not .
B_crumb	Class given to each A tag surrounding the intermediate crumbs (not home, or hide)
B_homeCrumb	Class given to the home crumb

Examples¶

Show breadcrumbs with a pipeline | for a separator.

[[Breadcrumbs? &crumbSeparator=`|`]]

In MODX Revolution 2.2, the &respectHidemenu property value must be given as 0 or 1 rather than true or false. I haven't tested this in other versions, but the 2.2 site I'm working on now would not adhere to the property's settings using true or false.