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Hi Matthias,

No I don't think its the same (although I could be wrong).

The way your solution works I think you would have to know the category id for the category you want to display ie $categoryid[n] - which you would in some cases and as you say would then have significantly fewer database calls.

The way I set up for my solution was to find out the category which is n steps deep in the category path - and so may have a different $categoryid each time

e.g. a simplified extract of my course_catetories table might look something like this

 My understanding is that with your solution, I could set $categoryid[1] to always display 'Faculty of Education' or $category[2] to always display 'Faculty of Arts' and so on - whatever the actual pattern of categories/sub categories. And this may be exactly what is wanted in some circumstances - in which case, as you say, your code would be the better one to use as it minimises database calls.

My solution - which was done purely for my learning and not for my practical application, although I believe Miriam has found it worked for her - is to be able to display the n^th step in the category path. For instance if I have 2 courses - 'Practical lab work' in the Secondary Science category and Teaching IT in the Curriculum 7-11 category, the breadcrumbs for these would look like:

My Home>Faculty of Education>Secondary ITT>Secondary Science>Practical Lab Work

My Home>Faculty of Education>Primary IT>Curriculum 7-11>Teaching IT

If, in my code, the $depth is set to 2 then the $category name (possibly as part of the header being displayed) would, in the first example, display 'Secondary ITT'  and would do so for any other courses, however many sub-categories deep within the Secondary ITT department (My Home would be $depth=0 etc), while in the second example it would display 'Primary IT' for this course and any others in the Primary ITT category and further sub-categories.

So the reason for the extra database calls is to determine and then breakdown the path of categories for the course - stored as a single string in the table as above - and then to find the name of the n^th category in that path, which could have a different $categoryid for different courses.

That at least is my understanding of the differences between the two solutions

HTH

Richard

Hi Monia,

The code goes in the position you want it to appear in the layout files (I think formal white has both frontpage.php and general.php but I'm on my android tablet at the moment and dont have the code available)

In your case, based on what you were asking in the other thread, it would probably replace the navbar code.

But bear in mind that the code above was a 'proof of concept' rather than a specific navbar/breadcrumb replacement, so you may need to tinker with it to get exactly what you want! Anyway, I hope it gets you towards where you want it to be

Richard

It really sounds crazy that just to hide one or two items in the breadcrumb we have to dig into the code levels to do this. Is there a "feature request' ticket somewhere in the Moodle bug tracker that talks about implementing this so that admin users can easily customize this at the UI level? Please let me know and I'm going to vote for that ticket. Thanks!

For my case, I JUST want to hide the "course category" in the breadcrumb and that's it. For example:

In Moodle 1.9 we used to see this type of breadcrumb:

CCC > PM (course name) > SCORMs/AICCs > Course Content

Now on Moodle 2.4 we are seeing this breadcrumb:

Home > My courses > [Course Category] > PM (course name) > / > Course Content

1. Is there a easy way for me to just remove that [Course Category] from the breadcrumb in 2.4?

2. Why is there an empty breadcrumb for the SCORMs/AICCs?? Is there a easy way to fix this (hopefully just remove it all together instead of showing '/', or at least let's put back the SCORMs/AICCs in the breadcrumb.

And yes this is a course using SCORM package. Thanks again!