How to create "Dynamic" Breadcrumbs in Zend Navigation

Question

With Zend_Navigation, I can do something like

Home > Projects > Collaborators

but What if I want something more useful

Home > Project name > Collaborator name

How can I acheive this? Is it a good idea? Possibly, there would be performance issues? Cos it got to query up the hierarchy? But whatever it is, how can I achieve this?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 30 '11 at 10:58

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Example #34 shows you how to use a view partial for breadcrumbs. I'd do a foreach on $this->pages and adjust where needed

http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.view.helpers.html#zend.view.helpers.initial.navigation.breadcrumbs

answered Jan 30 '11 at 10:58

Ashley

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+1. I think this is the easiest way of doing this. Another way would be to directly play with your navigation container, but it is more complicated that what Ashley suggests and unnecessary in this situation. – Marcin Jan 30 '11 at 12:08

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 30 '11 at 13:25

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The easiest way is to render the breadcrumbs and then append to this string the Collaborator name.

This works unless you don't need it in the navigation or sitemap. Otherwise, you have to add it to the container manually.

$this->navigation()
  ->getContainer()
  ->findOneByLabel('Colaborators')
  ->addPage(array('label'=>'name', 'uri'=>'/name'));

answered Jan 30 '11 at 13:25

takeshin

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This really helped with creating a dynamic sitemap for one of my sites. Thank you. – Nolan Knill Jul 16 '14 at 16:07

Ignacio Ruiz · Answer 3 · 2015-07-10T06:12:46.510

Maybe it's a little bit late, but since I've been struggling with this, I'm posting it just in case it can help anyone.

If you just want to change the actual label of the current page, the easiest way to do it is in this way:

$this->view->navigation()->findOneByRoute(
                              Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()
                                                     ->getRouter()
                                                     ->getCurrentRouteName()
                           )
                        ->setLabel($label);

The findOneByRoute will work charmly if you use Zend_Routes, if you don't, you can change it by findOneByX, being X is any property of the page.

Answering to the question of the OP, in this case, it would be easy to do:

$this->view->navigation()->findOneByLabel('Collaborators')
                         ->setLabel('Collaborator'. $name);

Being $name, the name of the collaborator.

I hope this helps to those people that still use ZF1.

Greetings,

How to create "Dynamic" Breadcrumbs in Zend Navigation

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