I am trying to create a category menu with sub categories. I have the following MySQL table:
--
-- Table structure for table `categories`
--
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `categories` (
`ID` int(11) NOT
NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`name` varchar(1000) NOT
NULL,
`slug` varchar(1000) NOT
NULL,
`parent` int(11) NOT
NULL,
`type` varchar(255) NOT
NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`ID`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=66 ;
--
-- Dumping data for table `categories`
--
INSERT INTO `categories` (`ID`, `name`, `slug`, `parent`, `type`) VALUES
(63, 'Party', '/category/party/', 0, ''),
(62, 'Kitchen', '/category/kitchen/', 61, 'sub'),
(59, 'Animals', '/category/animals/', 0, ''),
(64, 'Pets', '/category/pets/', 59, 'sub'),
(61, 'Rooms', '/category/rooms/', 0, ''),
(65, 'Zoo Creatures', '/category/zoo-creatures/', 59, 'sub');
And the following PHP:
<?php
include("connect.php");
echo "<ul>";
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM categories");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)) {
$catId = $row['id'];
$catName = $row['name'];
$catSlug = $row['slug'];
$parent = $row['parent'];
$type = $row['type'];
if ($type == "sub") {
$select = mysql_query("SELECT name FROM categories WHERE ID = $parent");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($select)) {
$parentName = $row['name'];
}
echo "<li>$parentName >> $catName</li>";
}
else if ($type == "") {
echo "<li>$catName</li>";
}
}
echo "</ul>";
?>
Now Here's the Problem,
It displays this:
* Party
* Rooms >> Kitchen
* Animals
* Animals >> Pets
* Rooms
* Animals >> Zoo Creatures
I want it to display this:
* Party
* Rooms >> Kitchen
* Animals >> Pets >> Zoo Creatures
Is there something wrong with my loop? I just can't figure it out.
