Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.Crumbs is a module that gives every page a trail (and a breadcrumb).
In combination with sections, this would allow a kind of inheritance of the section to sub-pages.
Example:
For a group post of node/456, we might get a trail of
: node (home)
> countries (views page)
> node/55 (country node for Sweden. alias: country/sweden)
> node/123 (city_group node for the Göteborg group)
> node/456 (group_discussion node)
> node/456/edit (node edit page)
For some of these pages we have useful aliases that allow a path-based sections configuration (Sweden). For others, we either have no aliases, or we don't want to rely on them.
For instance, we might want a special "Scandinavia" theme for everything in Sweden, Norway, Finland, that extends to all group posts and their edit pages.
It would be a pain trying to do all that with aliases.
This is why I crafted a patch for sections, that will do the following:
- Check if node/456/edit belongs to a section. If yes, return that section.
- If not, check if node/456 belongs to a section. If yes, return that section.
- If not, check if node/123 belongs to a section. If yes, return that section.
- etc.
I think that's quite nice, and was one of the motivations for the Crumbs module.
Would you be interested in this kind of thing?
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #2 | sections.module.crumbs.patch | 3.67 KB | donquixote |
| #1 | sections.module-6.x-1.4-modified.txt | 11.31 KB | donquixote |
Comments
Comment #1
donquixote commentedI still need to merge that new code with the changes from 6.x-1.x-dev version.
As a start, I will simply upload my modified sections.module from the 6.x-1.4 version.
All modifications are in _sections_in_section() and _sections_choose_for_path().
Comment #2
donquixote commentedHere is the patch for 6.x-1.x
Note: We need to be careful with user-provided php code (drupal_eval). The idea of the patch is that _sections_choose_sections($candidates, $path) will run for a number of paths in one request, not just one. This will not work if the respective code uses global values like $_GET['q'] or menu_get_item() and friends. For these two we could simply fake it (just set $_GET['q'] on a temporary value), but that's no way bullet-proof.
I think what we need is some kind of setting to make the new functionality optional. Or a "symbolic" integration module "crumbs_sections" or "sections_crumbs", that has to be enabled or otherwise the new logic will not kick in.
Comment #3
donquixote commentedHi.. any news?
I am going to use the modified version on a production site very soon (today, very likely). But I don't like to maintain hacked module code for too long ..
If you give some feedback, I am ready to produce a new patch with the above mentioned checkbox included! (That would be one checkbox per section)
Comment #4
donquixote commentedJust want to say, this technique does work quite ok on the site where I used it..