Article Manager v1.0

[michael_s]

This will keep "articles" in breadcrumb and add the topic names afterwards, instead of replacing the "articles" root with the topic name and preventing the user from returning to articles once in the topics.

new format:
catalog >> articles>> topic name
old format:
catalog >> topic name

in applications_top.php
FIND:
// add topic names or the author name to the breadcrumb trail
if (isset($tPath_array)) {
for ($i=0, $n=sizeof($tPath_array); $i 0) {
$topics = tep_db_fetch_array($topics_query);
$breadcrumb->add($topics['topics_name'], tep_href_link(FILENAME_ARTICLES, 'tPath=' . implode('_', array_slice($tPath_array, 0, ($i+1)))));
} else {
break;
}
}
} elseif (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['authors_id'])) {
$authors_query = tep_db_query("select authors_name from " . TABLE_AUTHORS . " where authors_id = '" . (int)$HTTP_GET_VARS['authors_id'] . "'");
if (tep_db_num_rows($authors_query)) {
$authors = tep_db_fetch_array($authors_query);
$breadcrumb->add(NAVBAR_TITLE_DEFAULT, tep_href_link(FILENAME_ARTICLES));
}
}

REPLACE WITH:
// add topic names or the author name to the breadcrumb trail
if (isset($tPath_array)) {
for ($i=0, $n=sizeof($tPath_array); $i 0) {
$topics = tep_db_fetch_array($topics_query);
$breadcrumb->add(NAVBAR_TITLE_DEFAULT, tep_href_link(FILENAME_ARTICLES));
$breadcrumb->add($topics['topics_name'], tep_href_link(FILENAME_ARTICLES, 'tPath=' . implode('_', array_slice($tPath_array, 0, ($i+1)))));
} else {
break;
}
}
} elseif (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['authors_id'])) {
$authors_query = tep_db_query("select authors_name from " . TABLE_AUTHORS . " where authors_id = '" . (int)$HTTP_GET_VARS['authors_id'] . "'");
if (tep_db_num_rows($authors_query)) {
$authors = tep_db_fetch_array($authors_query);
$breadcrumb->add('Articles by ' . $authors['authors_name'], tep_href_link(FILENAME_ARTICLES, 'authors_id=' . $HTTP_GET_VARS['authors_id']));
$breadcrumb->add(NAVBAR_TITLE_DEFAULT, tep_href_link(FILENAME_ARTICLES));
}
}

just this file is included not a full package

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[MindTwist]

Michael,
Quick question in case you can help, I implemented this fix and it does what it says.
But when I look at an article, I get:

Top - Catalog - Articles - Topic - Article Title - Articles

So I get an unneedeed Articles there at the end (which links back to the same place the first articles). Would you know how to fix that...?

[MindTwist]

LOL, nevermind... I think this post came from some kind of automated script that posts new contributions on oscommerce on this forums?