Adding Custom Breadcrumbs to Views Pages
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March 30, 2010
Adding Custom Breadcrumbs to Views Pages
Recently I needed to add custom breadcrumbs to views 2 generated pages. Now we were using excellent custom_breadcrumbs 1.x to add custom breadcrumbs on site. At that time I discovered that 1.x version of custom_breadcrumbs do not support views generated pages and 2.x version of module (which supports views) is not production stable. So I came up with this solution to create custom breadcrumbs for views pages:
Lets say we have a page view with structure
---Team (menu item)
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|---Featured 1 (tab-default)
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|---Featured 2 (tab)
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|---Featured 3 (tab)
Now instead of having a breadcrumb like "Home ›" OR "Home › Team ›" we need something like "Home › Our Team › Featured 1" for default tab. To accomplish this we need to add following php code in header section of view page with php filter enabled.
<?php
global $base_url;
$breadcrumb[] = l('Home', null);
$breadcrumb[] .= l('Our Team', 'team');
$breadcrumb[] .= l(drupal_get_title(), $base_url.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
drupal_set_breadcrumb($breadcrumb);
?>
Now this custom php will set new breadcrumb of page as:
Anonymous (not verified) May 21, 2010
Thanks for the ideas. It works fine. I want to ask about security... Is it really risky to apply this PHP code ?! At my site it's only user =1 who can use PHP format. Do I need to do something else to guard my site?!
dalin (not verified) April 2, 2010
PHP in the UI is bad for so many reasons (security, performance, maintainability, etc.). You'd be better off implementing hook_views_post_view() or hook_views_pre_view(): http://drupal.org/node/99567
Palócz István (not verified) April 1, 2010
Why use .= instead of =? Dot isn't necessary.
Why not use $_GET['q'] instead of $base_url.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']?
I want to ask what modification I need to do to this code in order to show "drupal_get_title()" without link to page. I don't need to link to a page that I am currently viewing. Is it possible to only get the page title without linking to it in the breadcrumb trail (line)?!
<code><?php
global $base_url;
$breadcrumb[] = l('Home', null);
$breadcrumb[] .= l('Our Team', 'team');
$breadcrumb[] .= l(drupal_get_title(), $base_url.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
drupal_set_breadcrumb($breadcrumb);
?></code>