RE: how to retrieve a hierarchical structure

2002-02-18 Thread Johnny Withers
(for filter: query,sql,mysql,table) I've done this a few times, I mostly do category systems and there is no reason to list all the categories at one time, so I usually have a "parent id" to work with in order to get all the sub categoreis from the DB. However, I have done one where I did want so

Re: how to retrieve a hierarchical structure

2002-02-18 Thread Antoine
Hi, A simple way is to make a recursive search by starting from the root, and collecting all ID's from each layer. You need only one query per layer, not one per node. It looks like this : -> start from the desired "directory" : SELECT * FROM table WHERE id_parent IN (8) -> say it returns chil