Question

Would be possible to build a nested menu with one mysql table? I have been making a table having the following structure but I’m having problem to build up the query

ID | Menu  | parent | position | active

 1   test      0         1         1

 2   test2     1         2         1

….

Answer 1

MySQL is not the best DB when it comes to storing hierarchical data. It doesn’t really have native support for it. So you can either write a recursive function in php that pulls each nested menu out on demand (okay if there are only a few, else the constant round trips to the db really kill app performance) or you can do something like this:

http://explainextended.com/2009/03/17/hierarchical-queries-in-mysql/