Question

My navigation table looks like this.

It based on a parent<->child scheme.

I’m using following code to generate breadcrumb.

function makeBreadcrumb($current, $lang, $db){
      $q = $db->query("SELECT id, parent, $lang AS name FROM nav WHERE id = '$current'");
      $row=$q->fetch_object();
      echo "<li>";
            echo '<a href="?id=' . $row->id . '">' . $row->name . '</a>';
            echo "</li>\n\n";
     if($row->parent) makeBreadcrumb($row->parent, $lang, $db);
    }

But getting reversed breadcrumb: it shows child>parent instead of parent>child
.How to fix that?

Answer 1

The solution is very easy…you can simply put the recursive call before the echo statment, like this:

function makeBreadcrumb($current, $lang, $db){
      $q = $db->query("SELECT id, parent, $lang AS name FROM nav WHERE id = '$current'");
      $row=$q->fetch_object();
     if($row->parent) makeBreadcrumb($row->parent, $lang, $db);
      echo "<li>";
            echo '<a href="?id=' . $row->id . '">' . $row->name . '</a>';
            echo "</li>\n\n";

    }

But I raccomend you not to do a query for each node in the tree. It could be very resource-expenshive.