Breadcrumbs: Specify maximum length?

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mtheuma Reply #1, 17 years, 5 months ago

I originall posted this in the Navigation & Tagging/Taxonomy forum, but I got no response. I got around this for now by specifying overflow:hidden; in the CSS for the DIV containing the breadcrumbs, but this is less than ideal...

Does anyone know how I can modify the Breadcrumbs snippit to truncate long breadcrumbs?

Hi,

When using the breadcrumbs snippit, is there any way to specify a maximum length for breadcrumbs and have the link ’truncate’ after the length is reached.

For example:

Home > News > This is a very very long breadcrumb link

would become

Home > News > This is a very very...

Thanks,
Matt

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markhurd Reply #2, 17 years, 5 months ago

I took a look at the Breadcrumbs snippet and found this on line 414:

$pretemplateCrumb .= '<a class="'.$crumbClass.'" href="'.$modx->makeUrl($c['id']).'" title="'.$title.'">'.$text.'</a>';

So, it looks like the $text variable contains the data you want to truncate. You could add the following right before line 414 to truncate it. I haven’t tested this but should get you pretty much there:

if (strlen($text) > x) {
    $text = substr($text, 0, x);
    $text .= "…";
}

Just replace x with the number of characters you want to display in the link.

EDIT: On a closer look you might want to add the code before line 390 - that way $text will be updated if you’re using a link or a span.

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mtheuma Reply #3, 17 years, 5 months ago

Excellent! Thanks Mark, it works perfectly as it is. As you suggested, I inserted the code on line 390 before the "// Make link" comment.

I really should learn some php...

Thanks again for your help.
Matt