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Here is one solution on how to add breadcrumbs to pages in Magento that by default do not have breadcrumbs. Recently we had a client that requested a basic breadcrumb to be shown on pages that Magento does not serve breadcrumbs.

<?php
/**
*
* CUSTOM BREADCRUMBS
*
* Adds url breadcrumbs for pages that do not have breadcrumbs by default
*
*/
 
?>
<?php if(is_null($crumbs)): ?>
<?php
 
/**
* NOTE
* On some servers use ->getServer('PATH_INFO')
* and on some ->getServer('ORIG_PATH_INFO')
*/
 
$urlRequest = Mage::app()->getFrontController()->getRequest();
$urlPart = $urlRequest->getServer('ORIG_PATH_INFO');
 
if(is_null($urlPart))
{
$urlPart = $urlRequest->getServer('PATH_INFO');
}
 
$urlPart = substr($urlPart, 1 );
$currentUrl = $this->getUrl($urlPart);
 
//$controllerName = Mage::app()->getFrontController()->getRequest()->getControllerName();
//$controllerName = ucfirst($controllerName);
 
$controllerName = str_replace("/", " ", $urlPart);
$controllerName = str_replace("_", " ", $controllerName);
$controllerName = str_replace("-", " ", $controllerName);
$controllerName = ucfirst($controllerName);
 
?>
<span class="breadcrumbs">
<strong class="float"><?php echo $this->__("You're currently on: ") ?></strong>
<ul class="breadcrumbs">
<li class="home">
<a title="<?php echo $this->__('Go to Home Page') ?>" href="<?php echo $this->getUrl() ?>"><?php echo $this->__('Home') ?></a>
</li>
<li> / </li>
<li class="<?php echo strtolower($controllerName) ?>">
<strong><?php echo $this->__($controllerName) ?></strong>
</li>
</ul>
</span>
<?php endif; /* END OF CUSTOM BREADCRUMBS */ ?>