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breadCrumb()

Last updated July 25, 2006

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Jon Lesser
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Version: 1 | Requires: ColdFusion 5 | Library: StrLib

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Description:
BreadCrumbs() can be called from any page and will return a string of links.

Return Values:
Returns a string.

Example:

<span class="breadCrumbLinks"><cfoutput>#BreadCrumb()#</cfoutput></span>

Parameters:

No arguments.

Full UDF Source:

	
	<cfscript>
/**
 * Creates a bread crumb trail based on your sites sirectory structure.
 * 
 * @return Returns a string. 
 * @author Jon Lesser (jdl1101@rit.edu) 
 * @version 1, July 25, 2006 
 */
function breadCrumb() {
    var baseLink = "/";
    var delimiter = " > ";
    var crumbs = "<a href='" & baseLink & "'>Home</a>" & delimiter;
    var breadCrumbArray = listToArray(replace(cgi.script_name, "_", " ", "all") , "/");
    var i = 1;
    
    for(i=1; i lt arrayLen(breadCrumbArray); i=i+1) {
        baseLink = baseLink & replace(breadCrumbArray[i], " ", "_", "all") & "/";
        
        if(i lt ArrayLen(breadCrumbArray)-1) crumbs = crumbs & "<a href='" & baseLink & "'>" & capFirstTitle(breadCrumbArray[i]) & "</a>" & delimiter;
        else crumbs = crumbs & capFirstTitle(breadCrumbArray[i]);        
    }
    return crumbs;
}
</cfscript>