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 Posted by hornedw on 08/30/06 18:54 
the category table should look like the following. it did not display 
very well in the first message 
 
catid, name,lft,rgt 
1, home,1,1 
2, books,2,17 
4, fiction,3,10 
5, nonfiction, 11,16 
3, electronics,18, 37 
 
 
 
 
 
 
hornedw wrote: 
> I have been working on a ecommerce website for myself. What I needed 
> some assistance on  was when i was trying to display the 
> categories/subcategories for the different products. 
> I decided to use the modified preorder tree transversal algorithm. What 
> I wanted was on the first page is to display the catogories as follows 
> 
> Books (35) 
> Electronics(23) 
> 
> The number inside the parenthesis being the number of products in that 
> category. When Books is clicked on, it would display the following 
> 
> Books(35) 
>   Fiction(18) 
>   Nonfiction(17) 
> Electronics(23) 
> 
> In my MYSQL database table, I have  the fields catid, name, lft and 
> rgt. For example for the three categories mentioned above  I have the 
> following entries 
> 
> catid        name                    lft         rgt 
> 1              home                     1         1 
> 2              books                   2          17 
> 4              fiction                    3         10 
> 5             nonfiction                11       16 
> 3            electronics               18       37 
> 
> 
> The first category home was just used to represent the main root of the 
> whole tree. If anyone could give me some assistance, it would be much 
> appreciated. Thank you in advance.
 
  
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