Here’s something I was googling last week – How do you change the text of Drupal’s ‘Home’ breadcrumb to something else? Well, it turns out that a small mod to your theme may be required…<\/p>\n
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While\u00a0using Drupal 6\u00a0to develop a\u00a0web application we ran into a little snag with Drupal’s breadcrumbs, the app is to integrate in with\u00a0our client’s\u00a0existing web site, it will look\u00a0and feel the same and the visitor\u00a0should not really know that it is separate from the main website (which is not implemented with drupal).\u00a0 With drupal this was all easy enough to achieve, but we hit a speed bump when it came to the web app’s breadcrumbs.\u00a0 Breadcrumb navigation is very important for the new web application, but Drupal always calls the first breadcrumb ‘Home’ – this was a problem as ‘Home’ did not refer to the larger web site’s home page as would be expected, but instead to the first page of the web application.<\/p>\n
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So how do we change the ‘Home’ breadcrumb text to something else, say the title of our web application?\u00a0 It turns out that there’s no easy way to do this through settings, but thanks to this thread<\/a> we can see that it is possible via a small change to the active theme.\u00a0The modification hooks into phptemplate_breadcrumb(),\u00a0it removes the existing primary breadcrimb (‘Home’) and then inserts a replacement with\u00a0the new text.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n So to make the change, edit your\u00a0theme’s template.php file, and search for the function\u00a0called:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n rename it to:<\/p>\n Then paste in the following, changing ‘New Home Text’ to what ever you want your ‘Home’ breadcrumb to be called.<\/p>\n With this theme modification in place the breadcrumbs should display with the new text in place, bit of a pain but at least it’s do-able!<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n[code lang=\"php\"]phptemplate_breadcrumb() [\/code]<\/pre>\n
[code lang=\"php\"]original_phptemplate_breadcrumb() [\/code]<\/pre>\n
[code lang=\"php\"]\r\nfunction phptemplate_breadcrumb($breadcrumb)\r\n{\r\n if (!empty($breadcrumb))\r\n {\r\n \/\/ remove the exisitng Home link\r\n $old_home_link = array_shift($breadcrumb);\r\n\r\n \/\/ insert the new link\r\n array_unshift($breadcrumb,\r\n l(t('New Home Text'), '