QuickCrumbs
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What is QuickCrumbs¶
QuickCrumbs is a quick and efficient breadcrumb-generation Snippet for MODX Revolution. It supports Chunks tpl's for the crumbs, has a configurable separator and much more.
History¶
Being developed since October 11, 2010 by Jason Coward.
Requirements¶
- MODX Revolution
Development & Bug reporting¶
ModDef is currently being developed on Github. That is also the place to report bugs, file feature requests and improvements. You may also fetch the latest commits from the Develop branch.
Github: https://github.com/opengeek/quickcrumbs
Usage¶
The QuickCrumbs snippet can be called using the tag:
[[QuickCrumbs]]
Calls without a &tpl property specified will just output an array listing of each resulting Resource and their fields.
Available Properties¶
The following properties are available for the QuickCrumbs Snippet.
Template properties¶
| Name | Description | Default Value |
|---|---|---|
| tpl | Name of a Chunk serving as a template for a Resource crumb. NOTE: If not provided, properties are dumped to output in a pre element for each crumb | |
| siteStartTpl | An optional Chunk serving as a template for the site_start. | Defaults to the *tpl* if not provided. |
| selfTpl | An optional Chunk serving as a template for the current Resource crumb. | Defaults to the *tpl* if not provided. |
| outerTpl | An optional Chunk serving as a wrapper template for the complete crumbs output. | Defaults to empty, returning the output as is. |
Crumb Selection properties¶
| Name | Description | Default Value |
|---|---|---|
| fields | A comma-separate list of fields to select from the resource as placeholders. NOTE that id, class_key, and context_key are always selected. | Defaults to 'pagetitle,menutitle,description' |
| showSiteStart | Indicates if a crumb representing the site_start Resource should be generated. | Defaults to 1 (or true). |
| showSelf | Indicates if a crumb representing the current Resource should be generated. | Defaults to 1 (or true). |
Other properties¶
| Name | Description | Default Value |
|---|---|---|
| separator | A string to use as a separator between crumbs. | Defaults to » |
| toPlaceholder | If not empty, the output is saved to a placeholder with the specified name instead of returned directly from the Snippet. | Default is empty. |
| debug | If true, debugging information will be sent to the MODX log. | Defaults to 0 (or false). |
Parent-Titles properties¶
| Name | Description | Default Value |
|---|---|---|
| parentTitlesPlaceholder | If not empty, pagetitles of all the parent crumbs are compiled and set as a placeholder with the specified name, for use in the content of your Resource. | Default is empty. |
| parentTitlesReversed | Indicates if the parent pagetitles should be output in reverse order. | Default is 0 (or false). |
| titleSeparator | A separator to use in between pagetitles used in the parentTitlesPlaceholder. |