I have a 2 tables that i need information from:
1. Categories (hierarchy (nested set model)): id, name, lft, rgt
2. Items: id, categoryID, name
I need a query that receives all the items from the selected category (incl sub-categories)
This has to be a join query.
Thanks in advance!
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Hi, thanks for you answer. So I couldn't use this query to get the category incl. sub-categories and add some sort of subquery or join to receive all the items from the category:
SELECT node.name
FROM nested_category AS node,
nested_category AS parent
WHERE node.lft BETWEEN parent.lft AND parent.rgt
AND parent.name = 'Category_Name'
ORDER BY node.lft;
hi - that will just get the children - ie at 1 level - if you have more decendants ie sub-sub categories then this will not pick them up.
If all you want is everything that has the parent of category_name then that is fine and your query will not present problems - I interpreted that you wanted all descendants of the category
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by: Raynard7Posted on 2007-08-02 at 17:25:13ID: 19621882
Hi,
to navigate through hierarchial data tables in mysql there is no syntax to allow you to do so through joins, so you would either have to hard code how many levels you wish to search through, or alternatively build a stored procedure to do it for you.