breadcrumb links.

[ventura]

does anyone know a good way to create breadcrumb links on dynmically created pages?

[whammy]

Sure, just be really sloppy when you're eating your sandwich.

Heheh... actually I've heard of this "method", but I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to accomplish by "breadcrumb". Are you trying to keep a "trail" of everything the user has done to a certain point, so you can "backtrack"? That's what it suggests to me. If so, I would assign each link some kind of "id" server-side (or perhaps even client-side with a cookie), and then store each link sequentially as it's clicked (add it to a string, etc.)...

Can you explain further?

[ventura]

whammy, that's exactly what i am looking for! just something like this at the top of a page that keeps track of where a person has been -

home > cameras > canon > elura 1.3

how would you do this?

[whammy]

Well, first of all I'd make a flowchart of your entire website, and it's heirarchy/relationships. Can't do too much without that... then, I'd ask what do you want to be able to do with this information?

If you just want to display the heirarchy of where the person is in your database structure, the above example you posted would be fine.