How to build unlimited level of menu through PHP and mysql

Question

Well, to build my menu my menu I use a db similar structure like this

  2  Services                  0
  3  Photo Gallery             0
  4  Home                         


        

Answer 1

You need to use recursive functions for this. Technically, there's a few ways to do it, but recursion is really the best option here.

Here's the basic gist of how it would work:

function drawMenu ($listOfItems) {
    echo "
";
    foreach ($listOfItems as $item) {
        echo "
" . $item->name;
        if ($item->hasChildren()) {
            drawMenu($item->getChildren()); // here is the recursion
        }
        echo "
";
    }
    echo "
";
}

The properties and methods of $item are just examples, and I'll leave it up to you to implement these however you need to, but I think it gets the message across.