This lets you create a nested multi-level category menu through PHP and mySQL. Using a recursive function, we can display an unlimited number of nested categories, for a drop down box that might look like this:
Fruit
— Apples
—->Red Delicious
—->Granny Smith
For the PHP newbie, checkboxes and/or multiple select listboxes can be baffling in the beginning. It’s actually not very hard at all, and is often one of the PHP newbie’s first experience with arrays.
If you’ve been directed to this page, that means that you’re complaining about how your variables in a POST or GET aren’t being carried over to the next page. You’ve been sent here because its an *extremely* common pitfall, and yet one that is exceptionally easy to work around if you know what to do – and also aggravating to explain over and over, hence this page.
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