Creating a breadcrumb trail, without folders!

Hello all,

I have a shop with categeories sub categories and products and i wondered if anyone had any ideas how i could go about creating a breadcrumb trail based on this and not using the only method i can find online, which is using the folder structure.

Does anyone have any tutorials or know of any sites that could help?

thanks all

 

look into mod_rewrite, it will have exactly what you need.

 

hmm, thanks for the suggestion, but im on a windows server

 

There are ASAPI filters that will do it also, not sure of the name though, sorry...

 

Working on the same problem on a WAMP installation -- Windows-Apache-MySql-PHP/Perl -- I came up with the following breadcrumb script in PHP:

$server = $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"];
$originalpath = $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"];
$urlbase = "http://".$server;

$roottitle = "Home";
$seperator = " > ";
$ignore = "Home";

$path = explode ("/", $originalpath);
$totalelements = count ($path);
printf("<a href=\"%s\">%s</a>", $urlbase, $roottitle);
for($number=1; $number<$totalelements ; $number++)
	{
	$urlbase = $urlbase . "/" . $path[$number];
	$path[$number] = str_replace("___", "_&_", $path[$number]);
	$path[$number] = str_replace("_", " ", $path[$number]);
	$path[$number] = str_replace("~", "?", $path[$number]);
	$path[$number] = str_replace(".php", "", $path[$number]);
	$path[$number] = ucwords($path[$number]);
	if ($path[$number] != $ignore)
		{
		printf("%s<a href=\"%s\">%s</a>", $seperator, $urlbase, $path[$number]);
		}
	}

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