Thanks for the code Alex!

I've got this now, which appears to work (minus the actual hyperlinking).

I am going to look at your version also as a solution to this.

Hi Alex,



This global:

sub {
my $tags = shift;
my ($full_name) = $DB->table('Category')->select('Full_Name',
{ ID => $tags->{category_id} })->fetchrow; require Links::Build;
my $title = Links::Build::build('title_linked', $full_name);
return $title; }



could you tell me what to do so that it does not display the name of the current category a user is viewing?

In other words all cats except the last one.



Thank you.

Try changing:

my $title = Links::Build::build('title_linked', $full_name);

to

my $title = Links::Build::build('title_linked', substr($full_name, 0, rindex($full_name, '/')) );

Thanks Paul it worked.

The only thing "not nice" is that the last category was not linked before your modification. Now since the last category has been "chopped off", the new (second to) last is not linked. So a visitor can not click up one level anymore ... Is there something to add or remove so that everything returned by that global is linked back to it's category?

You would need to duplicate title_linked and rename it it as it automatically stops hyperlinking at the final category of the trail.

I think I can handle that if you do not mind telling me what to do.

So I copy and paste the title linked sub, but then what needs to be renamed?

I tried this:

$SUBS{build_title_category_linked} = <<'END_OF_SUB';


sub build_title_category_linked {
# ------------------------------------------------------------------


# Generate a linked category title.
#
my $input = shift;
my $complete = 0;
my $home = 1;
if (ref $input) {
$complete = $input->{complete} || 0;
$home = defined $input->{home} ? $input->{home} : 1;
$input = $input->{name};
}

my (@dirs, $dir, $output, $path, $last, $db);

$db = $DB->table('Category');


@dirs = split (/\//, $input);
$last = pop @dirs unless ($complete);

for (0 .. $#dirs) {
$path = "/" . $db->as_url ( join "/", @dirs[0 .. $_] );
$output .= qq| <a class"menu_links" href="$CFG->{build_root_url}$path/$CFG->{build_index}"><img src="http://www.righters.com/_base/images/default/" border=0 width="10" height="10" vspace="0" hspace="0"><small style="text-decoration:none;">$dirs[$_]</a>&nbsp;</small> ><br> |;
}
if ($complete) {
chop $output; chop $output;
}
else {
$output .= " $last";
}
return $output;
}
END_OF_SUB

$SUBS{build_title_category_linked} = <<'END_OF_SUB';



but got an error. Where did I mess up?

I think thats the wrong routine, you are using build_title_linked.

It looks like you can pass in a hashref to get it to do what you want, using { complete => 1 }.....as well as name => the_category

That was in build.pm.

I am not sure about there being a difference between build_title_linked & title_linked...

title_linked is what you call, build_title_linked is the actual subroutine name. Build.pm uses compile on demand so build_ is prepended on to the string you pass in (title_linked)

Okay Paul Thank you for your time. I am still stuck.

Sorry for being ingnorant but is this a new global or a hack? if it's a hack what should I do with it?

It goes in the global to replace the line you originally had.

Great. Nice one Paul. Thank you.



The purpose for me is to show the path of categories the visitor has followed to get to the current category. That current category's style is now independent of the other categories...