PHP - Getting Rows From Within Two Tables/categories
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So i'm having a little trouble trying to simplify some code I already have. Code: [Select] $result = mysql_query("SELECT images, cat_id FROM image_cat"); while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $cat_id=$row['cat_id']; echo $cat_id; $imgresult = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM images WHERE cat_id='".$cat_id."'"); while ($col=mysql_fetch_array($imgresult)) { echo $col['img_id']; } } Okay, so this works, however i'm sure I can bring it together under one query, though i'm truly stumped as to how? I thought I could do a simple join: Code: [Select] $result = mysql_query("SELECT image_cat.cat_id, images.img_id WHERE image_cat.cat_id=images.image_cat"); This works, but repeats the image category on each loop. I could remove this via php if statements, but there must be a simpler/mysql solution. If it doesn't make any sense I need to get Img cat 1 -img 1 -img 2 img cat 2 -img 3 -img 4 etc etc That join will give img cat 1 -img 1 img cat 1 -img 2 img cat 2 -img 3 Hope that makes sense?? And any help would be amazing! Thanks. Similar TutorialsI have 2 queries that I want to join together to make one row
Hello Guys, Need a little help here. I have a db structure like this cat_id | cat_name | cat_status | parent_id 1 First Test 1 0 2 Just testing 1 0 4 Books 1 2 5 Cars 1 0 6 Ford 1 5 If the parent_id = 0 it is considered to be the parent. If it is a number it is considered a child and referencing the parent I want to be able to query the database and grab the cat and the sub cat and echo it on my page. Its like a classified ads application. Here is my while loop that I currently have which only echo's out the parent category. I would like to echo the child category under the respective parent category. I think I would have to do a loop within a loop, but not sure how to do it.. $query = "SELECT * FROM ad_category WHERE cat_status='1' && Parent_id='0' ORDER BY cat_name"; $result = mysql_query($query); while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) { $cat_name = $row[1]; $cupper = UCWords($cat_name); echo $cupper . "<br>" ; } Thanks for your help in advance I'm trying to pull user referral data from my database. This is what I have so far. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border:1px #000000 solid;" width="68%"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#eeeeee" style="padding:2px;border-right:1px #000 solid;border-bottom:1px #000 solid;"><font size="2" face="verdana"><b> User </b></font></td> <td bgcolor="#eeeeee" style="padding:2px;border-right:1px #000 solid;border-bottom:1px #000 solid;"><font size="2" face="verdana"><b> </b></font></td> <td bgcolor="#eeeeee" style="padding:2px;border-right:1px #000 solid;border-bottom:1px #000 solid;"><font size="2" face="verdana"><b> Date </b></font></td> <td bgcolor="#eeeeee" style="padding:2px;border-bottom:1px #000 solid;"><font size="2" face="verdana"><b> Visits </b></font></td> </tr> <? $lole=$_COOKIE["usNick"]; $tabla = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tb_users where username='$lole' ORDER BY id ASC"); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($tabla)) { echo "<tr><td><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\">"; echo $row["username"]; echo "</font></td><td><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\">"; echo $row["email"]; echo "</font></td><td><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\">"; echo $row["joindate"]; echo "</font></td><td><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\">"; echo $row["visits"]; echo "</font></td></tr>"; } echo "</table>"; ?> <script type="text/javascript"> initSortTable('myTable',Array('S','N','S','N','S')); </script> I just found out my user ID is missing from database.. Hi Everyone, I am working on developing a blog/comment system for my website. I have 3 tables, the first a blog post table with a row/primary key of id that is auto incremented as each new article is created via a form. The second table is a comments table with a row of article_id and the third table is a category table with an article_id row as well. From the main blog page I have links that will take users to each individual blog post using $_GET like so: Code: [Select] http://www.mydomain.com/blog/article/?id={$row['id']} From here I would like to be able to display the comment for that particular article below the article and also have a sidebar with links to blog categories which will then display each post according to whether they are in that category or not. My question is two-fold: First, what is the best way to pull the id field from the blog/post table, form, or url and enter it into the article_id rows of the second two tables? Should I use a hidden field, the URL id via $_GET, using a join, or what? Secondly: What is the best way to compare and display those rows so that the appropriate comments are being shown for the correct article, etc. This is my first time doing this so I am grateful for any help or suggestions. Thanks, kaiman month a0 a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 a7 a8 a9 a10 a11 a12 a13 a14 a15 a16 a17 a18 a19 a20 a21 a22 a23 a24 a25 a26 a27 a28 a29 a30 a31 1 puudu 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 [20] [21] 22 23 24 25 [26] 27 28 29 30 31 2 puudu 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 3 puudu 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 4 puudu 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 5 puudu 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 6 puudu 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 7 puudu 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 8 puudu 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 9 puudu 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 10 puudu 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 11 puudu 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 12 puudu 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 ; i need help .. with calculating how many days are between example: january = 1 ; day =23 to feb =2; day 23 in php ... how can i do that hello all, i want to display each row from mysql table in a different page using this code: Code: [Select] <? require_once('config.php'); //Connect to mysql server $link = mysql_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD); if(!$link) { die("can't connect: " . mysql_error()); } $db = mysql_select_db(DB_DATABASE); if(!$db) { die("can't select database"); } mysql_query("SET NAMES 'hebrew'"); //mysql_set_charset('utf8',$link); if (isset($_GET["page"])) { $page = $_GET["page"]; } else { $page=1; }; $start_from = $page-1; $qry='SELECT * FROM ordering limit 0, 1'; $result = mysql_query($qry); while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){ echo "<div dir='rtl' charset='utf8'><h2>"," hover cam: ",$row['hover_camera'], "<br> stills: ",$row['stills'], "<br> video_photographers: ",$row['video_photographers'], "<br> increase: ",$row['increase'], "<br> video_edit: ",$row['video_edit'], "<br> digital_album: ",$row['digital_album'], "<br> photo_album: ",$row['photo_album'], "<br> small_digital_album: ",$row['small_digital_album'], "<br> video_clip: ",$row['video_clip'], "<br> magnets: ",$row['magnets'], "<br> comments: ",$row['comments'], "<br> date: ",$row['date'], "<br><br></h2></div>"; } $sql = "SELECT COUNT(userid) FROM ordering"; $result = mysql_query($sql,$link); $row2 = mysql_fetch_row($result); $total_records = $row2[0]; $total_pages = $total_records ; for ($i=1; $i<=$total_pages; $i++) { echo "<a href='table.php?page=".$i."'>".$i."</a> "; }; ?> this is the table: Code: [Select] CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `ordering` ( `userid` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `hover_camera` varchar(10) DEFAULT NULL, `stills` int(5) NOT NULL, `video_photographers` int(5) NOT NULL, `increase` int(5) NOT NULL, `video_edit` varchar(10) NOT NULL, `digital_album` varchar(10) DEFAULT NULL, `photo_album` varchar(10) DEFAULT NULL, `small_digital_album` varchar(20) DEFAULT NULL, `video_clip` varchar(10) DEFAULT NULL, `magnets` int(10) NOT NULL, `comments` text NOT NULL, `date` date NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`userid`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 ; the problem is that only the first row is displayed no matter which page i choose and i want each page to display the row assigned to it (page 15 = row 15 etc...) any suggestions? I have a cart script, and I need to display the products the user has added. This is a school assignment and I'm very stuck on this seemingly 'little' error. Right now, I have two tables: For time's sake, I am showing duplicate products with different prod_id's: Table: products prod_id category sub_category thumb_href image_href title desc summary manufacturer price 17 sofa leather red_leather_sofa_small.jpg red_leather_sofa_main.jpg Red Leather Sofa [BLOB - 134B] [BLOB - 59B] Balenty 999.99 18 sofa leather red_leather_sofa_small.jpg red_leather_sofa_main.jpg Red Leather Sofa [BLOB - 134B] [BLOB - 59B] Balenty 999.99 19 sofa leather red_leather_sofa_small.jpg red_leather_sofa_main.jpg Red Leather Sofa [BLOB - 134B] [BLOB - 59B] Balenty 999.99 And this is the cart table that holds temporary cart items (storing the product ID to pull later): Table: cart temp_cart_item cart_id (assigned by session_id() ) prod_id user_id 22 jier11u0e7cl2ghosjodpaark2 17 asdfasdf 23 jier11u0e7cl2ghosjodpaark2 17 asdfasdf 24 jier11u0e7cl2ghosjodpaark2 35 asdfasdf 25 jier11u0e7cl2ghosjodpaark2 5 asdfasdf 26 jier11u0e7cl2ghosjodpaark2 19 asdfasdf SO, user 'asdfasdf' is logged in and has selected 5 items for his cart - two of which are the same (prod_id 17). Basically, I need to compare the prod_id's of each table and output all products (and quantities) matching the temporary cart prod_id. What I have now to loop through and display the cart items are (bear with me): echo "<h1>Cart</h1>"; } // Display welcome and navigation links displayWelcome(); displayNav(); // Getting the prod_id's from the table cart to compare with the product table $cart_id = session_id(); $user_id = ($_SESSION['login_username']); $query = "SELECT prod_id FROM cart WHERE cart_id='$cart_id' AND user_id='$user_id'"; $result = mysqli_query($cxn,$query) or die("<h2 class=\"warning\">Whoa! Problem with the cart script here!</h2>"); $nrows = mysqli_num_rows($result); if($nrows < 1) { echo "<h2>Your cart is empty</h2><p><a href=\"catalog.php\">Go back to the catalog</a></p>"; } else { // Continue to gather products for all the product IDs in the products DB table... echo "<h4>$nrows items in your cart</h4>"; while($row = mysqli_fetch_array( $result )) { $user_id = ($_SESSION['login_username']); $product = $row['prod_id']; // Is the query my problem? $query = "SELECT * FROM products WHERE prod_id='$product'"; $result = mysqli_query($cxn,$query) or die("<h2 class=\"warning\">Whoa! Problem with the cart script here!</h2>"); $nrows = mysqli_num_rows($result); if($nrows < 1) { // If the item doesn't exist, display an error echo "<h2>That is not a valid product, or any of the items you had in your cart are missing or have been deleted.</h2><p><a href=\"catalog.php\">Go back to the catalog</a></p>"; // Protect from continually displaying an error by deleting the invalid cart record $deletequery = "DELETE FROM cart WHERE prod_id='$product'"; $deleteresult = mysqli_query($cxn,$deletequery) or die("<h2 class=\"warning\">Whoa! Problem with the cart script here!</h2>"); exit(); } while($row = mysqli_fetch_array( $result )) { // Then disply them in a table echo "<h2>Items in Your Cart:</h2>"; echo " <table id=\"products\"> <thead> <tr> <th class=\"col1 headercol\" scope=\"col\">Thumbnail</th> <th class=\"col2 headercol\" scope=\"col\">Summary</th> <th class=\"col3 headercol\" scope=\"col\">Manufacturer</th> <th class=\"col4 headercol\" scope=\"col\">Price</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody>\n"; $query = "SELECT SUM(price) FROM products WHERE prod_id='$product' GROUP BY price"; $priceResult = mysqli_query($cxn,$query) or die("<h2 class=\"warning\">Whoa! Problem with the cart script here!</h2>"); // keeps getting the next row until there are no more to get // Print out the contents of each row into a table echo "<tr> <td class=\"col1\">"; echo "<a class=\"imgHref\" href=\"detail.php?prod_id=".$row['prod_id']."\" title=\"".$row['title']."\"><img src=\"../images/".$row['thumb_href']."\" alt=\"".$row['title']."\" /></a>"; echo "</td>\n"; echo " <td class=\"col2\">"; echo "<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"detail.php?prod_id=".$row['prod_id']."\" title=\"".$row['title']."\">".$row['title']."</a> <span class=\"inlineh3\">by <a href=\"categories.php?manufacturer=".$row['manufacturer']."\" title=\"View all products by ".$row['manufacturer']."\">".$row['manufacturer']."</a></span></h3>"; echo "<p class=\"summary\">".$row['summary']."</p> <p class=\"descHeading\">&#9758; <em>Full Description:</em></p> <p class=\"desc\">".$row['desc']."</p>"; echo "</td>\n"; echo " <td class=\"col3\">"; echo "<p class=\"manufacturer\"><a href=\"categories.php?manufacturer=".$row['manufacturer']."\" title=\"View all products by ".$row['manufacturer']."\">".$row['manufacturer']."</a></p>"; echo "</td>\n"; echo " <td class=\"col4\">"; echo "<p class=\"price\">$".$row['price']."</p>"; echo "</td> </tr>\n"; } while($priceRow = mysqli_fetch_array( $priceResult )) { echo "<tr class=\"short\"><td class=\"col1\"><h3><a href=\"clear_cart.php\">Empty Cart</a></h3></td><td class=\"col2\"></td><td class=\"col3 nobackground\">Total:</td><td class=\"col4\">$".$priceRow[0]."</td></tr>"; } echo "</tbody> </table>"; echo "<p class=\"submitOrder\"><form action='submit_order.php' method='post' id='form'> <input type='submit' name='pButton' value='Submit Order'> <input name='order_total' type='hidden' id='order_total' value='".$priceRow[0]."' /> </form> </p>"; } } And so the cart.php looks something like this (this example asdfasdf has 6 items in his cart): So you can see that it only displays ONE item, even though asdfasdf DOES have 6 items in his cart (proven by checking database). And the price is not accurate, either. Can anyone help me in where my problem might be? Is it my query? Or my while clause? hello i have a mysql table and i want to display each row in a different page with an added condition, the code: Code: [Select] if (isset($_GET["page"])) { $page = $_GET["page"]; } else { $page=1; }; $start_from = $page-1; $qry="SELECT * FROM ordering WHERE userid='$page' AND email='$email' LIMIT 0,1"; $result = mysql_query($qry); while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){ echo "<div dir='rtl' charset='utf8'><h2>"," hover cam: ",$row['hover_camera'], "<br> stills: ",$row['stills'], "<br> video_photographers: ",$row['video_photographers'], "<br> increase: ",$row['increase'], "<br> video_edit: ",$row['video_edit'], "<br> digital_album: ",$row['digital_album'], "<br> photo_album: ",$row['photo_album'], "<br> small_digital_album: ",$row['small_digital_album'], "<br> video_clip: ",$row['video_clip'], "<br> magnets: ",$row['magnets'], "<br> comments: ",$row['comments'], "<br> date: ",$row['date'], "<br><br></h2></div>"; } $sql = "SELECT COUNT(userid) FROM ordering"; $result = mysql_query($sql,$link); $row2 = mysql_fetch_row($result); $total_records = $row2[0]; $total_pages = $total_records ; for ($i=1; $i<=$total_pages; $i++) { echo "<a href='myorders.php?page=".$i."'>".$i."</a> "; }; the table is as so: Code: [Select] CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `ordering` ( `userid` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `hover_camera` varchar(10) DEFAULT NULL, `stills` int(5) NOT NULL, `video_photographers` int(5) NOT NULL, `increase` int(5) NOT NULL, `video_edit` varchar(10) NOT NULL, `digital_album` varchar(10) DEFAULT NULL, `photo_album` varchar(10) DEFAULT NULL, `small_digital_album` varchar(20) DEFAULT NULL, `video_clip` varchar(10) DEFAULT NULL, `magnets` int(10) NOT NULL, `comments` text NOT NULL, `date` date NOT NULL, `fname` varchar(100) NOT NULL, `email` varchar(100) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`userid`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8; now to the problem: this code displays all the userid as page numbers however, the email condition is good only for part of the rows it's a little hard to explain, i'll try an example: suppose the email '1@1.com' is at rows 22,25 and 30 my code displays 30 page numbers and page 22 is user 22, page 25 is user 25 etc. what i want is to display only the page numbers of the pages with the conditional email, and if possible to display them as 1,2,3 instead of 22,25,30 Hi, Please help I need to make categories with su-categories I made in my database tables like this table = categories cid | cat_id | parent_list | categ_name | type 1 0 1 General category c 2 1 1,2 sub category s 3 1 1,3 sub category s 4 1 1,2 sub category s 5 1 1,5 sub category s 6 5 1,5,6 sub sub category s 7 0 7 General category2 c 8 7 7,8 sub category s I need to view this in dropdown menu using parent_list column I have been going in circles about how to handle the issue that I have come up with and was hoping that someone could provide a different method. Basically I want to be able to create an infinite number of categories and allow them to be assigned to other categories then making them subcategories/sub sub categories if you will. My initial plan was to use a method I have used before by just saving the parent id of the subcategories and recursively going through the data. However, I am not to fond of this because of the inefficiency that it provides. I did some research and found that method is called the "Adjacency List". I also found another way to do it called "Nested Sets" which seems to be much more efficient but its a little harder to understand / maintain. I was hoping that someone here could offer alternatives to both of these methods that will allow me to keep the efficiency of "Nested Sets" but providing the ease of use / maintenance of the "Adjacency List". Thanks in advance for any help. Heres what i got... function printLB1 (){ $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM leaderboards ORDER BY CollegeFootballPoints DESC"); while ($row = mysql_fetch_object($result)) { $leaderboard[] = $row->Username; $leaderboardPoints[] = $row->CollegeFootballPoints; } $num = mysql_num_rows($reault); //I know from here to ................... needs to be in a var or echo or something. <tr> <td>1.</td> //This will auto increment too like i++ but i cna do that myself! <td>echo $leaderboard;</td> <td>echo $leaderboardPoints;</td> </tr> //Here......................................................... } I need to pull a table row per user. But i want to somehow do it once in a function and then ill echo the function into a table after the php stuff is done. Like i want to pull every a table row per user in the function. then display the function below that way i don't have to write a whole extra query and table row per person. If you understand please help if not please let me know where i can explain more. Thanks what Im basically trying to do is just like a phpmyadmin function... you select rows you want to update with a checkbox and then it takes you to a page where the rows that are clicked are shown in forms so that you can view and edit info in them... and then have 1 submit button to update them all at once. I have two tables, one called Categories and one called SubCategories. Each subcategory needs to be displayed under its parent category in a HTML table. So I have this code, but I don't know how to list each Sub-Category under each Category in a HTML table. <?php require ('includes/initialize.php'); require 'classes/database.class.php'; $sql = "SELECT * FROM Categories, SubCategories WHERE Categories.ID = SubCategories.CatID"; $Result = $database->Query($sql); $Data = $database->Fetch($Result); ?> Hello dear friends, If i've the following ( categories - gifts ) <?PHP $sql ="select * from categories"; $result= mysql_query($sql); while($line= mysql_fetch_array($result)){ $qryrow="select * from gifts where gifts='$line[1]'"; } ?> it means select category and its gifts now my question how to view it all in table for example if i add Code: [Select] <TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=1 width="100%"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD> <?php echo "". $line[1].""; ?> </TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> it will show me like this How can i make it like this my problem how to make table like this and where to put the php variable .. thanks How can i make unlimited sub categories when i have this mysql fields: id, name, parent Code: [Select] $query = "SELECT * FROM cats"; $result = mysql_query($query); while ($var = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { echo $var['name']; // now i need here some code for sub cats, but sub cat in subcat :( } Can someone help me? Hi there, I have a piece of code that takes all posts with the category of 'model' and puts it on the models page. It then displays the post as a gallery using fancy box. The problem is I want all posts with the category of 'faces' to go on the faces page, but at the moment they are appearing on both pages. Here is the code I have. Any help will guarantee a donation as I am at my wits end trying to figure this out. Code: [Select] <?php global $post; $args = array( 'numberposts' => 8, 'offset' => 0, 'category' => 'models', 'orderby' => 'post_date', 'order' => 'DESC', 'post_type' => 'post', 'post_status' => 'publish' ); $posts_array = get_posts( $args ); $x = 1; // track model foreach( $posts_array as $post ) { setup_postdata($post); ?> <div id="model-thumb"> <?php $arg2 = array( 'post_type' => 'attachment', 'numberposts' => -1, 'order' => 'ASC', 'post_status' => null, 'post_parent' => $post->ID ); $attachments = get_posts($arg2); if ($attachments) { $i = 1; // track images foreach ( $attachments as $attachment ) { $image_attributes = wp_get_attachment_image_src( $attachment->ID, 'full' ); if ($i == 1) { // Get thumbnail info to display with second image $img1src = $image_attributes[0]; $img1w = $image_attributes[1]; $img1h = $image_attributes[2]; } elseif ($i == 2) { // Display thumbnail with link to second image ?> <a class="allModels" rel="gallery<?php echo $x; ?>" href="<?php echo $image_attributes[0]; ?>" ?><img src="<?php echo $img1src; ?>" width="<?php echo $img1w; ?>" height="<?php echo $img1h; ?>"/></a><br /><p><?php the_content();?></p></div> <?php } else { // Other images ?> <div style="display:none;"><a class="allModels" rel="gallery<?php echo $x; ?>" href="<?php echo $image_attributes[0]; ?>"><img src="<?php echo $image_attributes[0]; ?>" width="<?php echo $image_attributes[1]; ?>" height="<?php echo $image_attributes[2]; ?>"/></a></div> <?php } $i++; // Increase image count } } $x++; // Increase model count } ?> Hi guys I need help writing a php script I have a table 'categories' with fields 'id' 'cat_name' 'parent_id' the 'parent_id' is just an the id field.. I want to create a way to have unlimited sub categories so I can have categorie -> sub-categories categories -> sub-categories -> sub-categories categories -> products Hello, I am doing (well trying to do, anyway) a script where I need to follow a link, and through its source (file_get_contents) i need to to follow each "category" and into its "subcategory" (and sometimes even SUBsubcategory). Lets say the first in the menu is called "Catfood", the second "Dogfood", you click on "Catfood" and you get a submenu with for example "Whiskas", another one called "Purina Pro", and you click "Whiskas" and you see a list of food called for example "Whiskas Junior Chicken" and "Whiskas Junior Fish". then after i have followed "Whiskas", i need to go back and follow "Purina Pro". then after "Purina Pro" i need to go back to "Dogfood" and do the same to its submenu + subsubmenu + food menu.. so yeah, thats pretty much it basically.. i have already used wget for windows to download the entire website to not put load on it all the time when trying stuff out.. i use RegEx to find categories, their products and price, and i got all that covered, it's just that the website isn't built very friendly for using Regex to tie lets say "Purina Pro" with being in the "Catfood" category, so i have to go through all categories and subcats to save the categories in maybe an array, and bind the subcategories to the main category ("Purina Pro" with "Catfood") i hope this all doesn't sound too errr weird lol, any help is very much appreciated even enough to just get me started on my own! =) ****************** EDIT BELOW: The menu looks a bit like this, though it's orinally not about cat or dogfood, they are just examples Catfood - Whiskas - Purina Pro Dogfood - Royal Canin - Puppy food - Grown - Senior - Bozita Robur Hey all, I have a relationship where a zone has many posts and a category has many zones but a zone can also have many categories. The zones are basically parts of a page, such as the main area and sidepanel stored in database as records with name fields such as 'panel' and 'main'. There's a serious flaw right now and I would like to know the best solution to address it. Right now I access the posts of a zone of a category like this: Code: [Select] $category->zone->get()->post->get(); The above ends up displaying all the posts in the database for any given category because when category is selected, it searches for the associating zones, and then selects all posts related to those zones, which is wrong. i want to select all posts of the zones associated with that particular category. Current database: Code: [Select] posts id zone_id zones id name categories_zones id zone_id category_id categories id What should I do? Add a category_id column to the posts table and relate the post directly to the category as well as directly to the zones table so the post table would have two foreign keys: category_id and zone_id Would this be the most effective thing to do given my requirements? Thanks for response. Im struggling with how to filter items that have multiple categorises say if i wanted to search for a shoe that is good for walking and hiking in my database? Shoe_id Shoe name color_id type_id colors color_id color type type_id type My problem is what do i do in a situations like this? say a shoe is good for walking and running? aka type 1 and 2 shoe id 1 shoe name nike color id 1 type id 1 and 2 |