With help of some posts on stackexchange, I found out this solution, This approach does not require you to override with di.xml
YOUR_THEME\Magento_Catalog\layout\catalog_product_view.xml
<referenceContainer name="content.top">
<block class="Vendor\Module\Block\Breadcrumbs" name="breadcrumbs" as="breadcrumbs" />
</referenceContainer>
Create a module with the following block:
Vendor/Module/Block/Breadcrumbs.php
<?php
namespace Vendor\Module\Block;
use Magento\Catalog\Helper\Data;
use Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template\Context;
use Magento\Store\Model\Store;
use Magento\Framework\Registry;
class Breadcrumbs extends \Magento\Theme\Block\Html\Breadcrumbs
{
/**
* Catalog data
*
* @var Data
*/
protected $_catalogData = null;
/**
* @param Context $context
* @param Data $catalogData
* @param array $data
*/
public function __construct(Context $context, Data $catalogData, Registry $registry, array $data = [])
{
$this->_catalogData = $catalogData;
$this->registry = $registry;
parent::__construct($context, $data);
}
/**
* Retrieve HTML title value separator (with space)
*
* @param null|string|bool|int|Store $store
* @return string
*/
public function getTitleSeparator($store = null)
{
$separator = (string)$this->_scopeConfig->getValue('catalog/seo/title_separator', \Magento\Store\Model\ScopeInterface::SCOPE_STORE, $store);
return ' ' . $separator . ' ';
}
public function getCrumbs() {
return $this->_crumbs;
}
/**
* Preparing layout
*
* @return \Magento\Catalog\Block\Breadcrumbs
*/
protected function _prepareLayout() {
$title = [];
if ($breadcrumbsBlock = $this->getLayout()->getBlock('breadcrumbs')) {
$breadcrumbsBlock->addCrumb(
'home', [
'label' => __('Home'),
'title' => __('Go to Home Page'),
'link' => $this->_storeManager->getStore()->getBaseUrl()
]
);
$path = $this->_catalogData->getBreadcrumbPath();
$product = $this->registry->registry('current_product');
if ($product && count($path) == 1) {
$categoryCollection = clone $product->getCategoryCollection();
$categoryCollection->clear();
$categoryCollection->addAttributeToSort('level', $categoryCollection::SORT_ORDER_DESC)->addAttributeToFilter('path', array('like' => "1/" . $this->_storeManager->getStore()->getRootCategoryId() . "/%"));
$categoryCollection->setPageSize(1);
$breadcrumbCategories = $categoryCollection->getFirstItem()->getParentCategories();
foreach ($breadcrumbCategories as $category) {
$catbreadcrumb = array("label" => $category->getName(), "link" => $category->getUrl());
$breadcrumbsBlock->addCrumb("category" . $category->getId(), $catbreadcrumb);
$title[] = $category->getName();
}
//add current product to breadcrumb
$prodbreadcrumb = array("label" => $product->getName(), "link" => "");
$breadcrumbsBlock->addCrumb("product" . $product->getId(), $prodbreadcrumb);
$title[] = $product->getName();
} else {
foreach ($path as $name => $breadcrumb) {
$breadcrumbsBlock->addCrumb($name, $breadcrumb);
$title[] = $breadcrumb['label'];
}
}
$this->pageConfig->getTitle()->set(join($this->getTitleSeparator(), array_reverse($title)));
return parent::_prepareLayout();
}
$path = $this->_catalogData->getBreadcrumbPath();
foreach ($path as $name => $breadcrumb) {
$title[] = $breadcrumb['label'];
}
$this->pageConfig->getTitle()->set(join($this->getTitleSeparator(), array_reverse($title)));
return parent::_prepareLayout();
}
}
YOUR_THEME\Magento_Catalog\templates\product\breadcrumbs.phtml
<?php if ($crumbs && is_array($crumbs)) : ?>
<div class="breadcrumbs">
<ul class="items">
<?php foreach ($crumbs as $crumbName => $crumbInfo) : ?>
<?php
$label = $block->escapeHtml($crumbInfo['label']);
$link = $block->escapeUrl($crumbInfo['link']);
?>
<li class="item <?php /* @escapeNotVerified */ echo $block->escapeHtml($crumbName) ?>">
<?php if ($link) : ?>
<a href="<?php /* @escapeNotVerified */ echo $link ?>"
title="<?= $block->escapeHtml($crumbInfo['title']) ?>">
<?= $label ?>
</a>
<?php elseif ($crumbInfo['last']) : ?>
<strong><?= $label ?></strong>
<?php else: ?>
<?= $label ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
Best Answer
I had faced the same issue but its resolved. Please check the below link.
Breadcrumbs not working on Product Page Magento 2.2.4