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Create breadcrumb using category path

Hi,

I have a Collection of real estate items, and each item is assigned a Location from a category set called Properties Location. This category set contains nested items and can be several levels deep.

When I show each item from the Collection, I also want to show a breadcrumb using the Location category path e.g. Location level 1 > Location level 2 > Location level 3.

I can get the full category path quite easily by using the following in my template:

<perch:categories id="property_location" set="property-location"><perch:category id="catPath" /></perch:categories>

And this returns /location-level-1/location-level-2/location-level-3/.

I'm wondering though if there an obvious Perch way to get this output as a breadcrumb? Or what would be the best approach to achieve this?

Thanks in advance for any pointers.
Simon Kelly

Simon Kelly 0 points

  • 3 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

3 years ago

Do you want to output the category title rather than the path?
Simon Kelly

Simon Kelly 0 points

3 years ago

Hi Drew,

Both, really. My aim is to get a breadcrumb list, with each item in the list showing the constituent parts of the path and a link for each. So if an item has a catPath of /location-level-1/location-level-2/location-level-3/ then I'm looking to get output of:

<ul>
<li><a href="/location-level-1/">Location level 1></a></li>
<li><a href="/location-level-2/">Location level 2></a></li>
<li><a href="/location-level-3/">Location level 3></a></li>
</ul>
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

3 years ago

Ok, how close to that have you got?
Simon Kelly

Simon Kelly 0 points

3 years ago

Well, I have the category path /location-level-1/location-level-2/location-level-3/ so I'm sure I could manipulate that string to create the markup above.

Ideally I'd like to achieve what I need by filtering using perch_categories() but I don't see how I can output the path parts as I need them from a category template. Is this possible?
Robert Ketter

Robert Ketter 103 points

3 years ago

I have this working on another site but I am away from the office today. I will look this code up tomorrow and post back.
Simon Kelly

Simon Kelly 0 points

3 years ago

Robert Ketter said:

I have this working on another site but I am away from the office today. I will look this code up tomorrow and post back.

Robert, that would be much appreciated, thanks.
Robert Ketter

Robert Ketter 103 points

3 years ago

I’ve been digging around. The code I found may not be what I thought. I’ll look some more,