Magento 1.9 – How to Remove Home and All Categories from Breadcrumbs

breadcrumbsmagento-1.9

I am trying to remove the breadcrumb link home.

Also all categories just so it isnt to much writing as a lot of our categories names are rather long.

For example

So instead of it saying

HOME->ALL CATEGORIES->TOPS->POLO-TOPS

I want it to say

TOP->POLO-TOPS

I have tried to just add this if statement to the breadcrumbs.phtml

<?php if ($_crumbName != 'home' ){?>

Which seems correct but it isnt doing anything so i dont know if i have this in the wrong place or am just going about this wrong. I have entered my full code below.

  $crumbsLevels = $this->getAllBreadcrumbs();
?>
<?php if($crumbsLevels && is_array($crumbsLevels)): ?>
<div class="breadcrumbs">
    <?php foreach ($crumbsLevels as $crumbs): ?>
    <?php if ($crumbName != home ){?>
    <ul>
        <?php foreach($crumbs as $_crumb): ?>
        <li <?php if ((!empty($_crumb['category_id']) || count($crumbs) >4) && !$_crumb['last']) { ?>typeof="v:Breadcrumb"<?php } ?><?php if (!empty($_crumb['hidden'])) { echo 'style="visibility: hidden;"'; } ?>>
        <?php if(!empty($_crumb['link'])): ?>
            <a href="<?php echo $_crumb['link'] ?>" title="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_crumb['title']) ?>" <?php if (!empty($_crumb['category_id'])) { ?>rel="v:url" property="v:title"<?php } ?>><?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_crumb['title']) ?></a>
        <?php elseif($_crumb['last']): ?>
            <strong><?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_crumb['title']) ?></strong>
        <?php else: ?>
            <?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_crumb['title']) ?>
        <?php endif; ?>
        <?php if(!$_crumb['last']): ?>
            <span>  </span>
        <?php endif; ?>
        </li>
        <?php endforeach; ?>
    </ul>
    <?php }?>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

I know i didnt mention the all categories but wanted to egt the Home link done first and i assume it will just be the same but using the category ID or the name 'All Categories'?

If someone could let me know where i am going wrong or what is should be writing in that would be great thank you.

Best Answer

if you just want to remove breadcrumbs from home page and category pages, then you can do it easily by a layout update. Use local.xml file to do this.

File : app\design\frontend\<your_package>\<your_theme>\layout\local.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout version="0.1.0">
    <default>
        <reference name="root">
           <remove name="breadcrumbs"/>
        </reference>
    </default>

    <catalog_category_default>
        <reference name="root">
           <remove name="breadcrumbs"/>
        </reference>
    </catalog_category_default>

    <catalog_category_layered>
        <reference name="root">
           <remove name="breadcrumbs"/>
        </reference>
    </catalog_category_layered>
 </layout>

EDIT

This job is somewhat difficult to achieve. This is because, by default magento adds home breadcrumb and category breadcrumbs from two different files. So basically you cannot avoid a rewrite atleast. So make your work more clean, you need to create a module. I am going to call this module Rkt_Breadcrumbs. First create config.xml for your module.

app\code\local\Rkt/Breadcrumbs/etc/config.xml

<config>
    <modules>
        <Rkt_Breadcrumbs>
            <version>1.0.0</version>
        </Rkt_Breadcrumbs>
    </modules>
    <global>
        <blocks>
            <catalog>
                <rewrite>
                    <breadcrumbs>Rkt_Breadcrumbs_Block_Breadcrumbs</breadcrumbs>
                </rewrite>
            </catalog>
        </blocks>
    </global>
</config>

So our module just tells to magento that, it needs to rewrite the class Mage_Catalog_Block_Breadcrumbs with our class Rkt_Breadcrumbs_Block_Breadcrumbs. Now we can define our rewrite class

File : app\code\local\Rkt/Breadcrumbs/Block/Breadcrumbs.php

<?php
class Rkt_Breadcrumbs_Block_Breadcrumbs extends Mage_Catalog_Block_Breadcrumbs
{
    protected function _prepareLayout()
    {
        if ($breadcrumbsBlock = $this->getLayout()->getBlock('breadcrumbs')) {

            $title = array();
            $path  = Mage::helper('catalog')->getBreadcrumbPath();
            array_shift($path);
            foreach ($path as $name => $breadcrumb) {
                $breadcrumbsBlock->addCrumb($name, $breadcrumb);
                $title[] = $breadcrumb['label'];
            }

            if ($headBlock = $this->getLayout()->getBlock('head')) {
                $headBlock->setTitle(join($this->getTitleSeparator(), array_reverse($title)));
            }
        }
        return parent::_prepareLayout();
    }
}

Here we are rewriting the method _prepareLayout(). Here if you compare the two methods, you can see that our new _prepareLayout() method do two jobs.

It removes Home breadcrumb
It removes root category from the category array which is generated via the helper class Mage_Catalog_Helper_Data::getBreadcrumbPath() using the method array_shift. That's it. You are done. Dont forget to add the activation file of the module. It looks like this.

File : app\etc\modules/Rkt_Breadcrumbs.xml

<config>
    <modules>
        <Rkt_Breadcrumbs>
            <active>true</active>
            <codePool>local</codePool>
            <depends> 
                <Mage_Catalog/>
            </depends>
        </Rkt_Breadcrumbs>
    </modules>
</config>

Note : This will resolve issues in category page only.

Related Solutions

Magento Category – Remove Breadcrumbs from Categories in Content Mode

You can rewrite the category view block and remove the breadcrumbs block if the display mode is PAGE For this create a new module. ([Namespace]_[Module]). Here is what you need.
app/etc/modules/[Namespace]_[Module].xml - the declaration file

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
    <modules>
        <[Namespace]_[Module]>
            <codePool>local</codePool>
            <active>true</active>
            <depends>
                <Mage_Catalog />
            </depends>
        </[Namespace]_[Module]>
    </modules>
</config>

app/code/local/[Namespace]/[Module]/etc/config.xml - the configuration file

<config>
    <modules>
        <[Namespace]_[Module]>
            <version>1.0.0</version>
        </[Namespace]_[Module]>
    </modules>
    <global>
        <blocks>
            <catalog>
                <rewrite>
                    <category_view>[Namespace]_[Module]_Block_Category_View</category_view>
                </rewrite>
            </catalog>
        </blocks>
    </global>
</config>

app/code/local/[Namespace]/[Module]/Block/Category/View.php - your new block

<?php 
class [Namespace]_[Module]_Block_Category_View extends Mage_Catalog_Block_Category_View {
    protected function _prepareLayout() {
        if ($this->isContentMode()){ //if PAGE display then remove the breadcrumbs
            $this->getLayout()->getBlock('root')->unsetChild('breadcrumbs');
        }
        return parent::_prepareLayout()
    }
}

[EDIT] If you want to control this at a theme level you can try this.
Add in your layout file of the desired theme, this xml section:

<catalog_category_default>
    <reference name="category.products">
        <action method="setCanRemoveBreadcrumbs"><param>1</param></action>
    </reference>
</catalog_category_default>

Then the block described above becomes:

<?php 
class [Namespace]_[Module]_Block_Category_View extends Mage_Catalog_Block_Category_View {
    protected function _prepareLayout() {
        if ($this->getCanRemoveBreadcrumbs() && $this->isContentMode()){ //if PAGE display then remove the breadcrumbs
            $this->getLayout()->getBlock('root')->unsetChild('breadcrumbs');
        }
        return parent::_prepareLayout()
    }
}

Magento – Change Breadcrumbs Home link’s URL 2.1

You have to override Breadcrumbs block under

/vendor/magento/module-catalog/Block/Breadcrumbs.php

So, create your module and your di.xml in vendorName/moduleName/etc folder:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:ObjectManager/etc/config.xsd">
    <preference for="Magento\Catalog\Block\Breadcrumbs" type="vendorName\moduleName\Block\Breadcrumbs" />
</config>

Then create your Breadcrumbs.php block file in vendorName/moduleName/Block folder:

<?php

namespace vendorName\moduleName\Block;

class Breadcrumbs extends \Magento\Catalog\Block\Breadcrumbs
{

    protected function _prepareLayout()
    {
        if ($breadcrumbsBlock = $this->getLayout()->getBlock('breadcrumbs')) {
            $breadcrumbsBlock->addCrumb(
                'home',
                [
                    'label' => __('Home'),
                    'title' => __('Go to Home Page'),
                    'link' => $this->_storeManager->getStore()->getBaseUrl()
                ]
            );

            //$breadcrumbsBlock->setTemplate('WaPoNe_HelloWorld::bread.phtml');

            $title = [];
            $path = $this->_catalogData->getBreadcrumbPath();

            foreach ($path as $name => $breadcrumb) {
                $breadcrumbsBlock->addCrumb($name, $breadcrumb);
                $title[] = $breadcrumb['label'];
            }

            $this->pageConfig->getTitle()->set(join($this->getTitleSeparator(), array_reverse($title)));
        }

    }
}

In this file you can change parameters in addCrumb() method: label, title and link.

Best Answer

EDIT

Related Solutions

Magento Category – Remove Breadcrumbs from Categories in Content Mode

Magento – Change Breadcrumbs Home link’s URL 2.1

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