recursive function to get all the child categories

Question

Here is what I\'m trying to do: - i need a function that when passed as an argument an ID (for a category of things) will provide all the subcategories and the sub-sub categ

Answer 1

Using Prestashop function :

public function getRecursiveChildren() {

    $subCategories = $this->recurseLiteCategTree();
    //print_r($subCategories);


    $my_tab = array();

    foreach ($subCategories['children'] as $subc) {
        $my_tab[]   = $subc['id'];
        foreach ($subc['children'] as $subc2) {
            $my_tab[]   = $subc2['id'];
            foreach ($subc2['children'] as $subc3) {
                $my_tab[]   = $subc3['id'];
                foreach ($subc3['children'] as $subc4) {
                    $my_tab[]   = $subc4['id'];
                }
            }
        }
    }
    $my_tab [] = $this->id; 

    return $my_tab;
}

this can be ameliorated using recursivity but no time for that today :'(