PHP Array to menu tree

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I'm trying to format a php array to a visual tree through a recursive function but for some reason it doesn't seem to work. It only prints the first level. Here's my code.

function recursiveMenu($arr){
    $maketree = "";
    if(is_array($arr)){
        foreach($arr as $key => $val){
            if(is_array($val)){
                $maketree .= "<div class='expcol jexpand'><a>[-]</a>".$key."</div>"
                           . "<div class='section jsection'>";
                recursiveMenu($val);
            }else{
                $maketree .= "<div>".TB.TB." <a href='index.php?action=". $val . "' >"
                          . "<div class='menuitem'>" . $val . "</div>"
                          . "</a></div>";
            }
            $maketree .="</div>";
        }
    }
    return $maketree;
}

function makeMenu($srch) {
    $makemenu = "<div>";
    $makemenu .= recursiveMenu($srch);
    $makemenu .= "</div>";  // </a>
    return $makemenu;
}

Below is my array result from DB:

$srch = Array(
    [Asia] => Array(
            [South] => Array(
                    [India] => Array(
                            [0] => Mumbai
                            [1] => New Delhi
                            [2] => Chennai
                        )
                )
        )

    [Europe] => Array(
            [West] => Array(
                    [Spain] => Array(
                            [0] => Madrid
                        )
                )

            [North] => Array(
                    [Denmark] => Array(
                            [0] => Copenhagen
                        )
                )
        )

    [Americas] => Array(
            [South] => Array(
                    [Brazil] => Array(
                            [0] => Brasilia
                        )
                )

            [North] => Array(
                    [USA] => Array(
                            [0] => Los Angeles
                            [1] => Atlanta
                            [2] => Boston
                            [3] => Houston
                        )
                )

            [Central] => Array(
                    [Mexico] => Array(
                            [0] => Cancun
                            [1] => Mexico city
                        )
                )

        )

    [Africa] => Array(
            [South] => Array(
                    [South Africa] => Array(
                            [0] => Cape Town
                            [1] => Johannesburg
                        )
                )
        )
)

The actual result I get is this (only the first level):

[-]Asia
[-]Europe
[-]Americas
[-]Africa

Does anyone see what's wrong here? Thanks in advance.

Ben Hillier · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-17 07:56:10Z

1

Aren't you forgetting to append the results of the 2nd recursive call to recursiveMenu() to the output. I think you need to change line 8 to :

$maketree .= recursiveMenu($val);

answered Jun 17, 2016 at 7:56

Ben Hillier

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