Interesting but how to make this hierarchy ? this i do not know in PHP :-( where can i find code examples ? On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Stut <stuttle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 30 Sep 2008, at 16:04, Alain Roger wrote: > >> a lot of web sites propose a locationbar (something like dynamic map site) >> to end user when they are browsing the website. >> usually i looks like that: >> >> Home > Products > Software > Operating System > Windows XP >> >> User can come back to a previous parent node by just clicking on the name, >> for example : Software. >> >> so: >> 1. what is the best method to use to create such "location bar" ? (array >> stored in session variable ?) >> 2. how to populate this bar ? (each time that user visit a page, the array >> is updated. if yes, how ?) >> > > These are usually called breadcrumbs and come in two forms. One is true to > the name and the other is actually the page location on the site rather than > crumbs. > > True breadcrumbs store the URL and name of the last n pages the user > visited and displays them as links to allow the user to go back through > their browser history. Since this duplicates functionality that exists in > 99.99999% of browsers out there this type is pretty rare these days. These > are pretty simple to implement but you need some way to store an RRD array > between requests. > > The more common type of breadcrumb is simply the location within the site. > Your example above is of this type. Occasionally you'll find these are > customised slightly based on user activity but for the most part they're > simply an indication of where in the site structure the page is. > > Given that they're linked more to the page than the user there's no need to > track anything between pages unless you want to customise them for the user. > All your site need to be able to do is create the heirarchy up to the > homepage from any page. > > As examples check out the following pages (under the orange bar)... > > http://uk.freeads.net/ > http://pets.uk.freeads.net/ > http://pets.uk.freeads.net/cats/ > http://pets.uk.freeads.net/cats/search?for=kitten > > And regional versions... > > http://aberdeen.uk.freeads.net/ > http://aberdeen.uk.freeads.net/pets/ > http://aberdeen.uk.freeads.net/pets/cats/ > http://aberdeen.uk.freeads.net/pets/cats/search?for=kitten > > If your site can't figure out where it is in the heirarchy then you've got > other problems more important than not being able to give the user > breadcrumbs. > > -Stut > > -- > http://stut.net/ > -- Alain ------------------------------------ Windows XP SP3 PostgreSQL 8.2.4 / MS SQL server 2005 Apache 2.2.4 PHP 5.2.4 C# 2005-2008
