Static pages

The most simple breadcrumb is probably going to be your homepage, which will look something like this:

Breadcrumbs::register('home', function($breadcrumbs) {
    $breadcrumbs->push('Home', route('home'));
});

As you can see, you simply call $breadcrumbs->push($title, $url) inside the closure.

For generating the URL, you can use any of the standard Laravel URL-generation methods, including:

• url('path/to/route') (URL::to())
• secure_url('path/to/route')
• route('routename') or route('routename', 'param') or route('routename', ['param1', 'param2'])(URL::route())
• action('controller@action') (URL::action())
• Or just pass a string URL ('http://www.example.com/')

This example would be rendered like this:

Home

Parent links

This is another static page, but this has a parent link before it:

Breadcrumbs::register('blog', function($breadcrumbs) {
    $breadcrumbs->parent('home');
    $breadcrumbs->push('Blog', route('blog'));
});

It works by calling the closure for the home breadcrumb defined above.

It would be rendered like this:

Home / Blog

Note that the default template does not create a link for the last breadcrumb (the one for the current page), even when a URL is specified. You can override this by creating your own template - see Custom Templates for more details.

Dynamic titles and links

This is a dynamically generated page pulled from the database:

Breadcrumbs::register('page', function($breadcrumbs, $page) {
    $breadcrumbs->parent('blog');
    $breadcrumbs->push($page->title, route('page', $page->id));
});

The $page variable would simply be passed in from the view:

{!! Breadcrumbs::render('page', $page) !!}

It would be rendered like this:

Home / Blog / Page Title

Tip: You can pass multiple parameters if necessary.

Nested categories

Finally if you have nested categories or other special requirements, you can call $breadcrumbs->push() multiple times:

Breadcrumbs::register('category', function($breadcrumbs, $category) {
    $breadcrumbs->parent('blog');

    foreach ($category->ancestors as $ancestor) {
        $breadcrumbs->push($ancestor->title, route('category', $ancestor->id));
    }

    $breadcrumbs->push($category->title, route('category', $category->id));
});

Alternatively you could make a recursive function such as this:

Breadcrumbs::register('category', function($breadcrumbs, $category) {
    if ($category->parent)
        $breadcrumbs->parent('category', $category->parent);
    else
        $breadcrumbs->parent('blog');

    $breadcrumbs->push($category->title, route('category', $category->slug));
});

Both would be rendered like this:

Home / Blog / Grandparent Category / Parent Category / Category Title