Cookies Plus
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The original thread was getting really long, so I started a new one for my question.
I am trying to build breadcrumbs from cookies (yes, I looked at crumbee, but it assumes that you are going down the url path, and I can bounce all over the place). I built the code in php but 1) every template would have to have php enabled, and 2) I cannot nicely handle my {site_url} when I move from test to production since I cannot embed EE globals in php, correct?.
This is the php code:
<?php
setcookie('link1', 'template_group/template1', time()+(60*60*24*7));
setcookie('name1', 'Description 1', time()+(60*60*24*7));
// I may or maynot have a link2
setcookie('link2', 'template_group/template2/category/cat', time()+(60*60*24*7));
setcookie('name2', 'Description 2', time()+(60*60*24*7));
?>
<?php
if (isset($_COOKIE['link1'])) {
echo "<div id=\"breadcrumbs\">";
$link1=$_COOKIE['link1'];
$name1=$_COOKIE['name1'];
echo "<a href="/cwc/"> Home </a>".
" / <a href="/cwc/index.php/.$link1"> ". $name1." </a>";
// ditto for link2
echo "</div>"
}
?>
This is what I tried with cookie_plus: I am not able to get the link or the name (can it only be used in a conditional?)
{exp:cookie_plus:set name="link1" value="template_group/template1" seconds="36000"}
{exp:cookie_plus:set name="name1" value="Description 1" seconds="36000"}
{exp:cookie_plus:set name="link2" value="template_group/template2/category/cat" seconds="36000"}
{exp:cookie_plus:set name="name2" value="Description 2" seconds="36000"}
<div id="breadcrumbs">
{exp:cookie_plus:get name="link1" parse="inward"}
<a href="http://{site_url}index.php"> Home </a>
/ <a href="http://{site_url}{cookie}"> OR? / <a href="{path={cookie}}"> _ {/exp:cookie_plus:get}_ {exp:cookie_plus:get name="name1"}_ {cookie} </a>
{/exp:cookie_plus:get}
</div>I would test to see if link2 is set - I may or may not have a link2
Thanks for any suggestions!! (Jun 8 - I updated this post with the html. The escaped characters got removed in the original post)
This would definitely be better off in a plugin, but I must admit I don’t quite understand what you’re trying to do. It looks like you’re trying to put the last two pages into a the cookie (EE already does this, take a look at the exp_tracker cookie). Seems like this would be a very unpredictable breadcrumb though.
2) I cannot nicely handle my {site_url} when I move from test to production since I cannot embed EE globals in php, correct?.
You can, just as you would anywhere else:
global $PREFS;
echo $PREFS->ini('site_url');Thank you, Pascal. I found the documentation for tracker, and yes, this is what I was looking for. Do you have a suggestion on how I store the ‘nice name’ for the page, ie Home instead of index.php? Again, a page can get called from several template groups/template, so I cannot just follow the url up the string.