I am creating a questionnaire for a client that requires the questions to be organized by 3 layers of levels. I've successfully created the U.I. however I've been trying for the last 3 hours to pull data from a database in such a way that everything loads in the right place. The database is organized like so by the client so I have no control over it:
id description parentId
1 Level 1 0
2 Level 2 0
3 Level 1a 1
4 Level 1b 1
5 Level 1a1 3
I have found a similar question to mine on the site but when I attempted it's solution I got the following on repeat infinetly:
Code:
function makeList($par_id = 0) {
//your sql code here
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM pB_test WHERE parentId = $par_id");
$pages = mysql_fetch_array( $result );
if (count($pages)) {
echo '<ul>';
foreach ($pages as $page) {
echo '<li>', $page['description'];
makeList($page['parentId']);
echo '</li>';
}
echo '</ul>';
}
}
makeList();
Output:
1
3
5
5
l
l
3
5
5
l
l
3
5
5
l
l
3
5
5
l
l
Does anyone know how to fix this and what the issue is exactly? Cheers