Hi everything,

I am trying to get the PHP & MySQL Verticle collapse menus work on my website with following concept:

- menu 1
- menu 2
- menu 3
- menu 3

If visitor click on menu 1 it will direct to that page of menu 1 and then list sub menus as the following concept:

- menu 1
. Testing Menus 1
. Testing Menus 2
. Testing Menus 3
. Testing Menus 4
- menu 2
- menu 3
- menu 3

Any body had experience with that please kindly let me know.

Regards,
Bunheng.

At least I can give you the database table:

menu:
=====
id INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY
name VARCHAR(255)
link VARCHAR(255)
parent_id INT DEFAULT '0'

And you fill it with:
1 | menu 1 | view.php?p=1 | 0
2 | menu 2 | view.php?p=2 | 0
3 | menu 3 | view.php?p=3 | 0
4 | menu 4 | view.php?p=4 | 0
5 | Testing menus 1 | view.php?p=1&action=1 | 1
6 | Testing menus 2 | view.php?p=1&action=2 | 1
7 | Testing menus 3 | view.php?p=1&action=3 | 1
8 | Testing menus 4 | view.php?p=1&action=4 | 1

You can also keep track of the 'order' in which every item has to be.

Any one can guide to how to select categories and its subcategories techniques.

You can use this ....

TABLE (primary key "parent, child")
|parent | child | s_name | url
| ----- | 00001 | menu 1 | view.php?p=1
| ----- | 00002 | menu 2 | view.php?p=2
| ----- | 00003 | menu 3 | view.php?p=3
| ----- | 00004 | menu 4 | view.php?p=4
| 00001 | 00005 | Testing menus 1.1 | view.php?p=1&action=1
| 00001 | 00006 | Testing menus 1.2 | view.php?p=1&action=2
| 00001 | 00007 | Testing menus 1.3 | view.php?p=1&action=3
| 00001 | 00008 | Testing menus 1.4 | view.php?p=1&action=4
| 00002 | 00009 | Testing menus 2.1 | view.php?p=2&action=1
| 00002 | 00010 | Testing menus 2.2 | view.php?p=2&action=2
| 00002 | 00011 | Testing menus 2.3 | view.php?p=2&action=3
| 00002 | 00012 | Testing menus 2.4 | view.php?p=2&action=4
| 00012 | 00013 | Testing menus 2.4.1 | view.php?p=2&action=4&subacction=1
...
etc.

You must use recursion for every child
First level
SELECT * FROM table WHERE parent='-----'
second level
SELECT * FROM table WHERE parent='00001'

.....................
SELECT * FROM table WHERE parent='00002'

................
SELECT * FROM table WHERE parent='00012'

thanks for your participation for the menus design, I am currently using the following code let me know if you have any idea better than this.

CODE:
----------------------------------------------
<ul>
<li class="maintitle"><a href="/wcscambodia/section.php?sectid=<?php echo $sectid;?>"><?php echo $sect_name;?></a></li>
<?php
$currentcat = (int)($_GET['catid']);
$listid = '';
$sql = "SELECT cat_label, cat_id FROM tblcategories WHERE parent_sect = $sectid";
$result = dbQuery($sql);
while ($row = dbFetchAssoc($result)) {
?>

<li<?php if ($row['cat_id'] == $currentcat){$listid = ' id="current"'; echo $listid; }?>>
<a href="subsection.php?catid=<?php echo $row['cat_id'];?>"><?php echo $row['cat_label'];?></a>
</li>
<?php
if ($row['cat_id'] == $currentcat){
echo '<ul class="subul">';
$sqlm = "SELECT * FROM tblarticle WHERE article_cat = $currentcat";
$mresult = dbQuery($sqlm);
while ($rowm = dbFetchAssoc($mresult)){
?>
<li class="article"><a href="article.php?catid=<?php echo $currentcat;?>&page=<?php echo $rowm['article_id'];?>"><?php echo $rowm['article_title']?></a></li>
<?php
}
echo '</ul>';
}
?>
<?php }?>
</ul>

I have made menus like this using straight php, not a database. how are the pages saved in the database?

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Hi, originally the each menus have destination link or page ID, it looks like joomla framework, I am currently use on some project, I am looking for shorter way and fast performance.

Are you legitimately still working on this? I only ask since it took over 3 months to get a reply. I haven't used Joomla much, so I don't know what you mean by it looks like joomla. Remember all a framework is is a pre-defined set of classes and/or functions, basically making your life/work easier.

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