Proposal: create custom breadcrumbs

[alberto-bottarini]

Here's my scenario:

I have two models:

• Topic
• Post

Topic hasMany Post while Post belongsTo Topic.

I disabled post in left menu so that user can "navigate" only starting from Topic. Topic detail page has a Posts list.

I would like to customize Post breadcrumb in order to avoid "index page" because this page is "hidden" from users.

I would like to have something like: Home / $titleOfTheTopic / $titleOfThePost

instead of the standard breadcrumb: Home / Post Index / $titleOfThePost

It would be nice to have the possibility to override standard structure inside my resources

What do you think?

[chris-ware]

I can understand the need for this, but I can't see this being cleanly achievable. If you'd like to submit a PR for this, I'll take a look, but I won't personally be coding this any time soon.

[alberto-bottarini]

What about something like this:

        if (method_exists($this->model, 'generateBreadcrumbs')) {
            $this->model->generateBreadcrumbs(function($title, $url) {
                $this->appendToCrumbs($title, $url);
            });
            return $this->getCrumbs();
        }

You delegate the invocation of appendToCrumbs to the resource

[chris-ware]

I think I have a solution for this, when I have time to work on Version 3. I basically want to offset the logic of generating the breadcrumbs to a manager of some form. That would enable a global overwrite of how the breadcrumbs work, but on top of that, I'd enable it to process them on a Resource basis, thus allowing the behaviour you've discussed above.