Multi-Tier Vertical Menus

ow-phil

Hello all,

Is there any solution to this problem?

I would like a 3 tiered vertical menu to place along the left side of a web site. The menu would be generated Dynamically from the database. Something like the following..

Master Item1 - Sub Item One
- Sub Item Two
- Sub Item Three - Sub Sub Item One
- Sub Sub Item Two

Master Item2 - Sub Item One
- Sub Item Two
- Sub Item Three - Sub Sub Item One
- Sub Sub Item Two

Anyone have any ideas of where to look for such a beast, or how to handle it.

Thanks In advance/

thines

Here is a whole wack of code snippets.

http://www.hotscripts.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?bool=AND&query=navigation&catid=2

Hope that helps.

-Tim

trooper

As you've specified that this is to be db driven then the main piece of work is the design of the database / tables that you are using

One way would be to have a table that contains a column called "parent". This would then point to the id of the section that the menu belongs to - let me explain with an example

Menu1 (id =1) parent (0)
submenu1(id =2) parent (1)
submenu2(id=3) parent(2)

So as you can see submenu 2 belongs to submenu 1 (by virtue of having the parent point to the id of submenu 1) and submenu 1 belongs to menu 1 (it has the parent pointing to the id of menu1).

Then you can simply add as many submenus as you want (so long as you give each menu a correct parent). The other thing to remember is that the "top" level menus need to have a parent that will allow easy identification as "top level" menus (i've used 0 in this example)

I have used this approach many times and have developed some very very complex menus.

HTH