Doug I would look at the dbase design and maybe consider a different approach.
Categories categoryId name parent displayOrder Now you could put all of your categories into one table and remove all joins. Then you could have a method to getAllCategories, getParentCategories, getSubCategories(parentId) functions. Any category with a parentId of 0 is top level. On 1/5/07, Doug Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some things just are not worth asking :) > > Doug B. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Doug Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 5:35 PM > Subject: Question on CFC's > > > > I am not overly familiar with CFC's and need a little help with > something. > > > > I have two tables that hold categories and sub categories. > > > > [categories] > > > > categoryID > > categoryName > > > > [sub_categories] > > SCategoryID > > categoryID > > SCategoryName > > > > > > I have a query pulling the main categories, and now I need to pull all > the > sub categories that are related to the main ones. What I would like to do > is > have a page like so dispursed into 3 or 4 seperate colums > > > > MainCategory > > sub,sub,sub,sub, > > sub,sub,sub,sub > > > > > > Here is where I am getting my main cats > > > > <CFFUNCTION name="InitGetAllMCats" access="public" returntype="query" > output="no" hint="Get All Main Categories"> > > <CFSET var GetAllMCats = ""> > > <CFQUERY name="GetAllMCats" datasource="#APPLICATION.DB#" > username="#APPLICATION.UN#" password="#APPLICATION.PW#"> > > SELECT CategoryID,CategoryName,CategoryImage,CatStatus,pricePerAd > > FROM #APPLICATION.DBPRE#Categories > > ORDER BY CatPos ASC > > </CFQUERY> > > <CFRETURN GetAllMCats> > > </CFFUNCTION> > > > > > > > > > > Doug B. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:265901 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
