I found two model two make to make category system with unlimited category one oft them is Tree traversal, and other is Adjacency list model.
I will use adjacency list model because it is more understandable than tree traversal. In tree traversal model , insterting and editing categories is unclear , also this model is for bigger database. However, i advice you to look up Tree traversal’s logic, i liked it 
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Let’s start with creating database;
`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`name` varchar(128) NOT NULL,
`top_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `id` (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 AUTO_INCREMENT=5 ;
–
– Tablo döküm verisi `category`
–
INSERT INTO `category` (`id`, `name`, `top_id`) VALUES
(1, ‘Computer’, 0),
(2, ‘Laptop’, 1),
(3, ‘Asus’, 2),
(4, ‘Phones’, 0);
We want to make sth like this:
-Computer
— PCS
——Laptop
———Asus
-Phone
We use functions that call itself named recursive functions.
{
function cat($cat_id, $space= 1, $x =”) // cat id, space to add "_" degree of categoreis times, list of categories
{
$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM category WHERE top_id=’$cat_id’");
while($select = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql))
{
$this->x = $this->x.str_repeat(‘_’, $space).$select['name'].’-'; // making a list with all categories names. we add "_" to in front of category name. It adds degree of category times. For example asus deggre is 2 therefore it will be __asus, pda’s degree is one therefore it will be _pda
$this->x = $this->cat($select['id'], ($space+1), $this->x); // function calls itself, with this, it finds subcategory of a category.
}
return $this->x; // This is list of all categories. Each category is separating with "-", be careful this is not an array , this is a string
}
function get_cat($cat_id)
{
$list = $this->cat($cat_tid);
$arr = explode(‘-’, $list); // making array with categories
unset($arr[count($arr-1]);// deleting last element of array, because it is a blank
return $arr // return a array;
}
}
To use it
$get_array_categories = $exapmle ->get_cat(0);
print_r($get_array_categories);
I wrote this to show you how you can make a category system with unlimited subcategory. If my codes don’t woking fine, please
inform.
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