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Hi there! I'm having some problems in this code... (plaincart) I have 2 pages: 1. index.php (is my main page where is the left menu); 2. functions.php (where is the PHP functions, necessary to build the menu at index.php). ---------- At this point all code is correct... the main menu is showing like this... 1. Women 2. Men 3. Children ---------- When I click, for example at "Women", the menu is showing like this... 1. Women - Coats - Blazers - Dresses 2. Men 3. Children ---------- But, my big question is: how to show the menu always like this: 1. Women - Coats - Blazers - Dresses 2. Men - Coats - Blazers - Shirts 3. Children - Boys - Girls ---------- **QUESTION:** How to show always the parent id of the main categories... Perhaps a little modification in functions.php > formatCategories(); ? ******************* index.php ******************* $catId = (isset($_GET['c']) && $_GET['c'] != '1') ? $_GET['c'] : 0; // get all categories $categories = fetchCategories(); // format the categories for display $categories = formatCategories($categories, $catId); ?> <ul> <li><a href="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">All Category</a></li> <?php foreach ($categories as $category) { extract($category); // now we have $cat_id, $cat_parent_id, $cat_name $level = ($cat_parent_id == 0) ? 1 : 2; $url = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . "?c=$cat_id"; // for second level categories we print extra spaces to give // indentation look if ($level == 2) { $cat_name = ' » ' . $cat_name; } // assign id="current" for the currently selected category // this will highlight the category name $listId = ''; if ($cat_id == $catId) { $listId = ' id="current"'; } ?> <li<?php echo $listId; ?>><a href="<?php echo $url; ?>"><?php echo $cat_name; ?></a></li> <?php } ?> </ul> ******************* functions.php ******************* function formatCategories($categories, $parentId) { // $navCat stores all children categories // of $parentId $navCat = array(); // expand only the categories with the same parent id // all other remain compact $ids = array(); foreach ($categories as $category) { if ($category['cat_parent_id'] == $parentId) { $navCat[] = $category; } // save the ids for later use $ids[$category['cat_id']] = $category; } $tempParentId = $parentId; // keep looping until we found the // category where the parent id is 0 while ($tempParentId != 0) { $parent = array($ids[$tempParentId]); $currentId = $parent[0]['cat_id']; // get all categories on the same level as the parent $tempParentId = $ids[$tempParentId]['cat_parent_id']; foreach ($categories as $category) { // found one category on the same level as parent // put in $parent if it's not already in it if ($category['cat_parent_id'] == $tempParentId && !in_array($category, $parent)) { $parent[] = $category; } } // sort the category alphabetically array_multisort($parent); // merge parent and child $n = count($parent); $navCat2 = array(); for ($i = 0; $i < $n; $i++) { $navCat2[] = $parent[$i]; if ($parent[$i]['cat_id'] == $currentId) { $navCat2 = array_merge($navCat2, $navCat); } } $navCat = $navCat2; } return $navCat; }