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How do I populate a CSS menu with php data?


figster

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My question seems like a simple one.. and yet I have had great dificulty finding the answer. I have a collapsable css menu design that I want to use on my article directory web site. The catagories are created in my admin section and sent to mysql data base and it returns a text catagory menu that looks awful. I am wanting to use a css menu to improve the look. How do I populate that menu with my catagory php data base?

Thanks,
Figster
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How are you outputting the text? Just what exactly are you using to output the first menu? Basically, all you need to do (if you want to do it like I would) is take all of the categories and create a list for each of them within the <li> tags of a master list. Then the links within the categories just come out of the database with an <a> tag and its contents.
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How are you outputting the text? Just what exactly are you using to output the first menu? Basically, all you need to do (if you want to do it like I would) is take all of the categories and create a list for each of them within the <li> tags of a master list. Then the links within the categories just come out of the database with an <a> tag and its contents.
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Thanks for your help, My catagories are for an article directory and will be changeing a lot as the site grows. So there will be parent catagories and children possibly 3 generations. The Table I am trying to poulate the catagory menu with is $catagories. I just can't seem to get the coding to work. The basic site came with this
<ul>
$catagories
</ul>

And that did create a text link list of all the catagories. When I try to add some style to it.. they disapear. I need the code that will populate my collapsable css driven menu. Maybe I should be posting in the php section?

I am certain I need a <div= name off css menu> ul {code} </ul></div>

The code is what I am missing.

Thanks, Jim
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