php category, sub category tree

Question

I\'ve done this before in long complicated statements but I\'m trying to clean up some code.

I have the following table structures

parent_categories              


        

Answer 1

You need to adjust your loop and foreach loop is of no use, just play with if else to check for the parent is same or different ,the result of query will have the name of parent category in each row ,

$get_categories = "SELECT * 
 FROM parent_categories a
  INNER JOIN  child_categories b ON a.pid = b.lpid
 ORDER BY a.pid";

$currentParent = false;
while ($rowCategories = $q_get->fetch())
{
if ($currentParent != $rowCategories['pid'])
{
echo '
'.htmlentities($rowCategories['parent_name']).'
';
$currentParent = $rowCategories['pid'];
}

echo '
' . htmlentities($rowCategories['category_name']) . '
';

}

Above code will output it like as

Parent Cat 1
    
subcategory 1
    
subcategory 2
Parent cat 2
    
 subcategory 3

Edit @eggyal's comments there are some corrections to the answer