Hi.
Im new here, so hello to eveybody :)
Im at my wits end. I can make a perfectly working recursion script that output my categories and sub categories with no problem.
But making the categories be outputted in an un-ordered list (CSS) doesn't work.
DATABASE
Code:
CREATE TABLE `categories` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`sortorder` int(11) NOT NULL,
`status` enum('1','0') NOT NULL,
`type` int(11) NOT NULL,
`parent` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`picture` varchar(150) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=106 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;
CREATE TABLE `categories_description` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`category_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`country_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`status` enum('1','0') NOT NULL,
`name` varchar(70) NOT NULL,
`description` text NOT NULL,
`seo_title` text NOT NULL,
`seo_description` text NOT NULL,
`seo_keywords` text NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=106 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;
The structure basically uses:
ID : Unique identification
PARENT : Referer to the parent category
The rest is just various data that I use for other things.
Recursion function
PHP Code:
class Categories {
public function categories_tree($country_id='',$parent='0',$spacer='') {
$db = new Db();
$sql = $db->query("SELECT c.*,cd.name FROM categories AS c,categories_description AS cd WHERE c.id=cd.category_id AND c.parent='$parent' AND cd.country_id='$country_id' ORDER BY c.parent,c.type,c.sortorder");
$num = $db->count_rows($sql);
$spacer .= '- ';
while($row = $db->fetchArray($sql)) {
if($num==0 || $row['parent']=='0') {
$spacer = '';
}
echo $spacer.'<a href="productlisting.php?cid='.$row['id'].'">'.$row['name'].'</a><br />';
$this->categories_tree($country_id,$row['id'],$spacer);
}
}
}
All this will output e.g.:
Category 1
- Sub Category 2
- Sub Category 3
- - Sub Category 4
Category 5
- Sub Category 6
What I need is:
HTML Code:
<ul id="categories" class="treeview">
<li><span>Category 1</span>
<ul>
<li><span>Sub Category 2</span></li>
<li><span>Sub Category 3</span>
<ul>
<li><span>Sub Category 4</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><span>Category 5</span>
<ul>
<li><span>Sub Category 6</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
This code will not work.
Because the ending </li> and </ul> will be missing the right spots.
PHP Code:
class Categories {
public function categories_tree($country_id='',$parent='0',$spacer='') {
$db = new Db();
$sql = $db->query("SELECT c.*,cd.name FROM categories AS c,categories_description AS cd WHERE c.id=cd.category_id AND c.parent='$parent' AND cd.country_id='$country_id' ORDER BY c.parent,c.type,c.sortorder");
$num = $db->count_rows($sql);
$spacer .= '- ';
while($row = $db->fetchArray($sql)) {
if($num==0 || $row['parent']=='0') {
$spacer = '';
}
echo '<ul><li><span>'.$spacer.'<a href="productlisting.php?cid='.$row['id'].'">'.$row['name'].'</a></span>';
//echo $spacer.'<a href="productlisting.php?cid='.$row['id'].'">'.$row['name'].'</a><br />';
$this->categories_tree($country_id,$row['id'],$spacer);
echo '</li></ul>';
}
}
}
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