dodo123456 0 Newbie Poster

Hi People, I am having displaying categories and subcategories:

i have one table where i ise parentid in the same table as:

pid, cat, parentid, details

i am able to list all cats/sub cats but i want to display as like this:

animal » doggie » companion

but my list does not appear like this:

when i select doggie it replaces animal rather than appearing against it.

well i thought using left outer joins to go three level deep..

what if i gave 15 levels deep. then how can i make this work. 15 left outer joins is too much.

i am using mysql for this. is any function build in mysql or mssql server to make this workaround,

if not then how we can do it in programmtic way.

Cheers