Breadcrumb issue with Articles (Manager)

[Vibe]

Hello!

I have been working on my first OSCMax project and must say - AWESOME! I really enjoy the template system and REALLY appreciate the inclusion of the many MODS - thanks to everyone!

I have run into one issue, however, that I am hoping to find a direction for solving. I am running OSCMax 2.0.0-RC3-0-1 with the default Article Manager (I believe 1.2B). I have made the corrections for the 1054 error and everything is working great (need to update Article MGR as I have to "tie" articles to an "author" and "topic" in order to be displayed).

What is happening is that when I setup a topic, add an article within that topic, and assign an author - everything works great - displayed just fine. However, when I visit the actual article page, the bread crumb trail has a final link at the end for "articles" that links to "articles_info.php" - which returns a page not found error.

For example - I have a "topic" called "Software" and under that an article about "Choosing an Operating System." The following is the breadcrumb trail that appears on that specific article page:

Home >> Shopping >> Articles >>> Software >>> Choosing an Operating System? >> Articles (<-- Need to get rid of the final "articles" link)

The final link for "Articles" is NOT needed as it precedes the "Freezers" topic link. Also - the last link leads to "articles_info.php" vs. "articles.php" as with the first reference to articles.

Has anyone encountered this issue or can anyone point me in a possible direction for where the last "articles" link may be generated?

I have looked within application_top.php as well as the breadcrumb class to no avail. And I have attempted numerous searches (Google & here) to find information that would be helpful.

Thank you for any assistance/suggestion that you can provide. I must say this forum has been a tremendous help during the development of my first OSCMax site.

Best Wishes!

[Vibe]

Hmmm...

Maybe someone can answer a basic question - Can you direct me to the files that control the breadcrumb generation for the Article Manager?

I greatly appreciate any assistance you can provide!

[michael_s]

I think it is a bug in the version of article manager included in RC3.0.1. If you update to the latest version of the article manager it is not present anymore. RC4 has this update and does not have the issue.

You can download the latest article manager mod from addons.oscommerce.com and then do a compare to merge in the relevant changes.

[Vibe]

Thank you so much for your help michael_s - it is certainly appreciated!

I was also reviewing some of the RC4 files and will definitely follow your suggestions.

PS - A sincere thank you for all of the work you done to make this project happen!

[Vibe]

I have found the issue and just wanted to share in case anyone else experiences this:

In the "article_info.php" page just under the store catalog (catalog/article_info.php) there is a line for adding the breadcrumb to the page:

$breadcrumb->add(HEADING_TITLE, tep_href_link(FILENAME_ARTICLE_INFO, '', 'NONSSL'));

By commenting this out the final link in the breadcrumb trail - "articles" - that incorrectly leads to "articles_info.php" page is removed.

Thanks again for your help and I look forward to RC4!!!