What is codeigniter-breadcrumbs?

Breadcrumbs is a small helper library for CodeIgniter, a popular PHP framework for building websites. It handles the "breadcrumb" navigation trail you often see near the top of a webpage, those clickable links like "Home > Section > Page" that show visitors where they are within your site and let them jump back to higher levels. Using it is straightforward. You add breadcrumb entries one at a time by giving each a label and a URL. You can append them in order using push, or prepend one to the front using unshift, handy for always dropping "Home" at the start regardless of when you build the rest of the trail. When you're ready to display the navigation, a single show() call outputs the HTML. A site owner managing a product catalog, for instance, could build a trail like "Shop > Electronics > Headphones" so customers can click back to broader categories. This library is aimed at developers building sites or web apps with CodeIgniter who want breadcrumb navigation without writing the logic from scratch. Any multi-level site, a documentation portal, an e-commerce store, a blog with categories, benefits from breadcrumbs because they improve wayfinding and SEO. Instead of manually crafting link strings and managing order on every page, developers get a simple API to assemble the trail programmatically. The project is intentionally minimal. The README covers installation and basic usage but doesn't document advanced configuration, styling options, or edge cases. It's a lightweight utility rather than a full-featured navigation package, which fits its purpose: most CodeIgniter projects just need a clean, dependable way to render those breadcrumb trails without extra overhead.