How to customize links for breadcrumbs widget for Yii? - yii

Question

How to customize links for breadcrumbs widget for Yii?
I can change the property tagName, but it for container. I want to change a tag for each links from a to li. How can I do it?

Answer 1

Well there's no setting/property value that you can specify for the default CBreadcrumbs widget class that will give you <li>. You can confirm this if you check out its run() method. In the source you can see this:
public function run(){
// code
foreach($this->links as $label=>$url)
{
if(is_string($label) || is_array($url))
$links[]=CHtml::link($this->encodeLabel ? CHtml::encode($label) : $label, $url);
else
$links[]='<span>'.($this->encodeLabel ? CHtml::encode($url) : $url).'</span>';
}
// more code
}
So what you'll have to do is extend this class and specify your own run method, where you can use <li> or CHtml::tag('li',//other options) instead of the default CHtml::link.
Edit:
Although i would suggest enclosing the <a> for each link with a <li> (instead of replacing it):
$links[]='<li>'.CHtml::link($this->encodeLabel ? CHtml::encode($label) : $label, $url).'</li>';

Answer 2

You can do that with 'activeLinkTemplate' and 'inactiveLinkTemplate' properties:
$this->widget('zii.widgets.CBreadcrumbs',
array('tagName'=>'ul',
'homeLink'=>'<li>'.CHtml::link('Home', array('/')).'</li>',
'activeLinkTemplate'=>'<li>{label}</li>',
'inactiveLinkTemplate'=>'<li class="active">{label}</li>',
'htmlOptions'=> array('class'=>'breadcrumb'),
'separator'=>' / ',
'links'=>$this->breadcrumbs,
));
Or U can write 'homeLink'=>false. But in this case U'll have to set Home url every time with $this->breadcrumbs.