Webmasters allways use category trees, i wrote a function about creating category trees with using recursive function.
<?php header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8'); include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/mysql.inc.php"); function categories($firstCategory,$node) { $kQ = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM categories WHERE category= ".$firstCategory); if(mysql_num_rows($kQ) > 0) { echo(str_repeat("\t",$node+1)."<ul>\n"); $node++; while($k = mysql_fetch_array($kQ)) { //str_repeat is for "view source" format, we set TAB character for readable HTML echo(str_repeat("\t",$node)."<li>".($node+1)." ".$k["name"]."</li>\n"); // Recursive, call function it self categories($k["id"], $node); } echo(str_repeat("\t",$node)."</ul>\n"); } } categories(0,-1); ?>
Output :
- Food
- Fruits
- Apple
- Banana
- Vegetables
- Tomatoes
- Aborgin
- Fruits
- Drinks
- Soft
- Fruit Juice
- Apple Juice
- Strawberry Juice
- Milk
- Fruit Juice
- Soft