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Umair Ayub
Umair Ayub

Reputation: 21351

Find all Child categories recursively from and Array - PHP

I have all categories fetched from DB like so.

array
  11 => 
    object(stdClass)[19]
      public 'inv_category_id' => string '11' (length=2)
      public 'parent_category_id' => string '0' (length=2)
      public 'name' => string 'Innerwear' (length=9)
      public 'level' => string '3' (length=1)

  40 => 
    object(stdClass)[20]
      public 'inv_category_id' => string '40' (length=2)
      public 'parent_category_id' => string '11' (length=2)
      public 'name' => string 'Dupattas, Scarves & Stoles' (length=26)
      public 'level' => string '3' (length=1)

  38 => 
    object(stdClass)[21]
      public 'inv_category_id' => string '38' (length=2)
      public 'parent_category_id' => string '11' (length=2)
      public 'name' => string 'Athletic Apparel' (length=16)
      public 'level' => string '3' (length=1)

  37 => 
    object(stdClass)[22]
      public 'inv_category_id' => string '37' (length=2)
      public 'parent_category_id' => string '38' (length=2)
      public 'name' => string 'Sweaters' (length=8)
      public 'level' => string '3' (length=1)

I have this function to find all child categories of category ID 11

public function get_all_child_categories($cat_id) {

    global $all_categories_details;

    $all_child = array();

    foreach ($all_categories_details as $cat){

        if($cat->parent_category_id  ==  $cat_id){
            $all_child[] = $cat->inv_category_id;

            return self::get_all_child_categories($cat->inv_category_id);
        }
    }

   return $all_child;
}

I am calling this function like so get_all_child_categories($parent_cat_id)(11);

I tried

$all_child =  self::get_all_child_categories($cat->inv_category_id);

and

$all_child[] =  self::get_all_child_categories($cat->inv_category_id);

But it returns an empty Array.

I cant figure out where I am getting wrong.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1221

Answers (1)

user3578992
user3578992

Reputation:

Try this one

public function get_all_child_categories($cat_id, $all_child = array()) {

global $all_categories_details;



foreach ($all_categories_details as $cat){

    if($cat->parent_category_id  ==  $cat_id){
        $all_child[] = $cat->inv_category_id;

        $all_child =  self::get_all_child_categories($cat->inv_category_id, $all_child);
    }
}

  return $all_child;
 }

Upvotes: 2

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