Anyone have a clue where I can find the code that regulates the bread crumb tag so I can change the seperator ":" to something else?

This is hard coded into Links. However, this has been discussed before and you can write a global to rewrite it

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...i?post=218409#218409

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...i?post=193258#193258

I tried editing the Build.pm file as specified in the link you supplied:


sub build_title_linked {
# ------------------------------------------------------------------
# Generate a linked 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, $top);

$db = $DB->table('Category');
$top = Links::language('LINKS_TOP') || 'Top';

@dirs = split (/\//, $input);
$last = pop @dirs unless ($complete);
$output = $home ? qq| <a href="$CFG->{build_root_url}/$CFG->{build_index}">$top</a> :| : '';
for (0 .. $#dirs) {
$path = "/" . $db->as_url ( join "/", @dirs[0 .. $_] );
$output .= qq| <a href="$CFG->{build_root_url}$path/$CFG->{build_index}">$dirs[$_]</a> :|;

But now it hangs when I build my pages in admin. I tried escaping quotes, no quotes, and simply deleting the colons, and it still seems to break things. Can someone please be specific at how this can be done? I'd like to add " > " instead of " : ".

Thanks.

Sorry, I should have taken a bit more time and given you the global - editing the core code is not a good idea.

sub {
my $tags = shift;
my $title_linked = $tags->{title_linked};
$title_linked =~ s/:/>/g;
return $title_linked;
}

Put this in your list of Template Globals and call it something like tl_replace

Then you can call it in your tempate using <%tl_replace%> instead of <%title_linked%>

afinir,

Many thanks for all your help. I did exactly what you said and it works great. My only question now is how do I put a space before the " > " since it displays as:

"Home> Category" rather than "Home > Category"

Sorry I'm not much of a perl/cgi coder. Thanks again for the help.

$title_linked =~ s/:/>/g;

This is the line that does the replacement. s/oldpattern/newpattern/ replaces the oldpattern with the newpattern and the g means do it globally - i.e. not just for the first occurrence. I don't think that this line should be changing any spacing - is it possible that you removed the space in your build.pm file while you were editing it? Anyway, you should be able to fix it by adding the space back in:

$title_linked =~ s/:/ >/g;

Laura.

Kinda strange. I checked one of the template pages where I didnt change the global and it displays:

Home : Category

However, on the pages with the new global it displays:

Home> Category

I double checked Build.pm and I believe it's been reset to how it was since I compared it with my post where I showed the code.

Any other ideas?

Also adding the space "$title_linked =~ s/:/ >/g;

" didnt do anything. Can you insert markup like &nbsp; instead?

Actually, I also just noticed that the replaced title has the link totally wrong as well.

Hmm, very strange. Yes, try it with &nbsp;

Does it just happen after Home or after both Home and Category when you have a subcategory?

Totally wrong in what way?

It's giving me this as a link:

http://www.domain.com/links/New/http%3E//www.domain.com/links/index.html

Rather than:

http://www.domain.com/links/index.html

Oh yes, of course - I couldn't see why there would be a colon in the link - sorry!

Try using

$title_linked =~ s/\s:\s/\s>\s/g;

so it only matches space : space in the original and wont mess up your links.

You'll need:

$title_linked =~ s/\s:\s/ > /g;

\s will only work in the pattern match. If you include it in the replacement it will actually print out \s

You could just do this though:

$title_linked =~ s/ : / > /g;

Thanks Paul. Strange what rubbish you can type when you're not really concentrating!

I'm guilty of that more often than you =)

Ok, the last two suggestions from Paul did fix the links, however, it didn't fix the space issue. I'm still getting results like:

Home> Category

Thanks for the help. Any idea how to fix the space issue?

It shouldn't be doing that. Is Build.pm definitely back to its original state?

I just copied and pasted the code from my post above, so I'm pretty positive Build.pm is back to it's original state. Also, like I said before, any changes to it at all made it stop working.

Any other ideas?

Try this:

$title_linked =~ s/ : /&nbsp;> /g;

I think that this must be something to do with the template parser. I assume that in the compressed version of the page it takes out what it thinks are unnecessary spaces which include spaces within tags.

Bingo!

That did it! Again, many many thanks for the great help and persistence. I appreciate it.