Posted by Colin on 12/17/53 11:53

I've always thought of breadcrumbs as a representation of where you
have been, to answer the wuestion 'How did I get here?'. A kinda fancy
way to show a users history within your website's domain. Breadcrumbs
are named such as a reference to the fairy tale of hansel & gretal
(spell?). They left breadcrumbs on the trail the took to know how to
get back....

What you are talking about I would call a directory or page heirarchy.


crescent_au@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I want to create dynamic breadcrumbs for a site I am developing. I just
> want to get some views about the algorithm of breadcrumbs.
>
> The way I look at it is the concept of parent/ child (main/ sub). I
> have the "Home" page, which has links to sub-pages such as
> "Introduction", "History", "Timetable", etc. Each page can have other
> sub-pages, such as "Timetable" can have "Semester1", "Semester2", etc.
> This is how I'd initially think. Am I on the right track? If yes, how
> do I proceed? Do I need a database or is there another efficient way to
> do it? If it is in fact the way I am thinking, then I think I need a
> way to "register" or hold the data in some way and access it on each
> page. I'm just lost here.
>
> Please push me to the right direction.
>
> Thanks
> Ben

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