Json Menu Structure from MySQL

Question

I have been going round and round with this issue, seemed very simple. I am trying to produce a menu/submenu json out put with PHP/MYSQL: These are the tables:

Answer 1

• First off I assume your data goes like this -

INSERT INTO menu
(id, parentmenu, name)
VALUES
(1,1,"history"),
(2,1,"owners"),
(3,1,"news"),
(4,2,"address"),
(5,2,"map"),
(6,3,"jeans"),
(7,3,"tables"),
(8,3,"shoes");

INSERT INTO menuHome
(id,titleName)
VALUES
(1,"About Us"),
(2,"Contact Us"),
(3,"Products");

• secondly i will suggest you to change your query to -

SELECT pm.id, cm.id, pm.titleName, cm.name FROM menu as cm
LEFT JOIN (menuHome as pm)
ON (pm.id = cm.parentmenu);

• third, lets get to coding

for our purposes we want something like this -

$arys = ["menu"=>["sections" => [
["title" => "About Us", "items" => [
["name"=>"History","id"=>1],
["name"=>"Owners","id"=>2],
["name"=>"News","id"=>3]
]],
["title" => "Contact Us", "items" => [
["name"=>"Address","id"=>4],
["name"=>"Map","id"=>5]
]],
["title" => "Products", "items" => [
["name"=>"Jeans","id"=>6],
["name"=>"Tables","id"=>7],
["name"=>"Shoes","id"=>8]
]]
]
]
];

So let's build it up

$querys = "Select pm.id AS pmd , cm.id AS cmd, pm.titleName AS pmt, cm.name AS cmt from menu as cm left join (menuHome as pm) on (pm.id = cm.parentmenu) Order By pmd, cmd ";
$result = mysql_query($querys);
$jsary = ["menu" => ["sections" => []]];
$lastPid = 0;
$currentPid = 0;
$title = "";
$ifff = 0;
$elss = 0;
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
        $currentPid = $row['pmd'];
        $title = $row['pmt'];

    $cmd = $row['cmd'];
    $cmt = $row['cmt'];

    if($lastPid != $currentPid)
    {
            $insAry = [];
            $insAry = ["title"=> $title, "items" => [["name" => $cmt, "id" => $cmd]]];
            array_push($jsary["menu"]["sections"], $insAry);
            $lastPid = $currentPid;
            $ifff = $ifff + 1;
            $currentPid = 0;
    }
    else
    {
            $ind = 0;
            if($ifff > 0)
            {
                    $ind = $ifff-1;
            }
            $insAry = [];
            $insAry = ["name" => $cmt, "id" => $cmd];
            array_push($jsary["menu"]["sections"][$ind]["items"], $insAry);
    }}

Now just call json_encode()

json_encode($jsary);

You'll have your desired output