Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] SiteMgr Enhancement

[W. Chris Shank]

That's exactly what I want (but may meave off the page). Thanks for the
how-to, I will impliment this over the weekend.

Thanks!

> Chris,
>
>     Sorry for the slow reply -- I'm out of town on vacation at the
> moment.
>
>     If I understand what you are asking correctly, it would be very easy
> to
> make a "breadcrumb trail".  Let me confirm that I understand what you
> are looking for.
>
>     If you have a site with a hierarchical category tree, like this:
>
> RootCategory1
>     SubCategory1
>         Subsubcategory1
>     SubCategory2
> RootCategory2
>     SubCategory3
>
>     And you were viewing a page called "Page1" in the Subsubcategory1
> category, then you would have display something like this:
>
> RootCategory1 -> SubCategory1 -> Subsubcategory1 -> Page1
>
>     where each category links to a table of contents page for that
> category.
>
>     If this is what you are looking for, it is pretty easily done.
>
>     The easiest thing would be to do this as a block.  But since I
> haven't
> yet tested center blocks, and you will likely want this to be across the
> top, that may not work for you.  The really cool way to implement this
> would be to provide a new variable to the templates called, for example,
> "{breadcrumbs}", and have that automatically return a string like what
> is shown above.
>
>     Here's what you should do to add this functionality.  I would add it
> to
> my todo list, but as long as you're willing...
>
>     In class.ui.inc.php in your sitemgr-site directory around line 142
> add a
> line like this:
>
> $this->t->set_var('site_header', $this->bo->get_breadcrumbs());
>
>     then edit class.bo.inc.php and add a function get_breadcrumbs();
>
>     The first thing you will need is the page id.  In class.bo.inc.php
> this
> is stored in $this->page->id.  You will find its parent category by
> looking at $this->page->cat_id.  Next you will want to get information
> regarding the category -- is it the root category?  What is its name?
> What is its parent's name and id?  Etc.  For this information you merely
> need to create a "sitemgr.categories_bo" object and do a getCategory()
> on the cat_id.  With the returned object, let's call it $catobj, you can
> retrieve the following: $catobj->id
> $catobj->name
> $catobj->description
> $catobj->sort_order
> $catobj->parent (the id of the parent, which you can learn about by
> calling getCategory again)
> $catobj->depth (top level categories are depth zero)
> $catobj->root (the topmost category id -- the root of the current branch
> -- if this is a root then id == root)
>
>     And that's all the information you need.  Of course you'll need to
> edit
> your template to include the {breadcrumb} variable.  Let me know if you
> have questions.
>
> ..Patrick (mr_e)
>
>
>
> On 10/8/02 10:23 AM, "W. Chris Shank" <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm currently using the SiteMgr module and it's working very well.
>> I've begun implimenting a breadcrumb trail and it's rather tedious to
>> do this all by hand. Since the trail follows this model head_category
>> -> sub_category -> page_name, I'm wondering if there is currently
>> anyway to get this info, such that any page would know it's trail?
>>
>> If not, I'd like to add this functionality. Any recomendations on
>> where to start?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Chris Shank (spastic)
>>
>>
>>
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