这是一个分类表。

SELECT  id,
        NAME,
        parent_category 
FROM    (SELECT * FROM category
         ORDER BY parent_category, id) products_sorted,
        (SELECT @pv := '2') initialisation
WHERE   FIND_IN_SET(parent_category, @pv) > 0
AND     @pv := CONCAT(@pv, ',', id)

输出:

使用BlueM/tree php类在mysql中创建一个自关系表的树。

Tree和Tree\Node是PHP类，用于处理使用父ID引用分层结构的数据。一个典型的例子是关系数据库中的一个表，其中每个记录的“父”字段引用另一个记录的主键。当然，Tree不能只使用来自数据库的数据，而是使用任何数据:您提供数据，Tree使用它，而不管数据来自何处以及如何处理。阅读更多

下面是一个使用BlueM/tree的例子:

<?php 
require '/path/to/vendor/autoload.php'; $db = new PDO(...); // Set up your database connection 
$stm = $db->query('SELECT id, parent, title FROM tablename ORDER BY title'); 
$records = $stm->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC); 
$tree = new BlueM\Tree($records); 
...

从博客管理分层数据在MySQL

表结构

+-------------+----------------------+--------+
| category_id | name                 | parent |
+-------------+----------------------+--------+
|           1 | ELECTRONICS          |   NULL |
|           2 | TELEVISIONS          |      1 |
|           3 | TUBE                 |      2 |
|           4 | LCD                  |      2 |
|           5 | PLASMA               |      2 |
|           6 | PORTABLE ELECTRONICS |      1 |
|           7 | MP3 PLAYERS          |      6 |
|           8 | FLASH                |      7 |
|           9 | CD PLAYERS           |      6 |
|          10 | 2 WAY RADIOS         |      6 |
+-------------+----------------------+--------+

查询:

SELECT t1.name AS lev1, t2.name as lev2, t3.name as lev3, t4.name as lev4
FROM category AS t1
LEFT JOIN category AS t2 ON t2.parent = t1.category_id
LEFT JOIN category AS t3 ON t3.parent = t2.category_id
LEFT JOIN category AS t4 ON t4.parent = t3.category_id
WHERE t1.name = 'ELECTRONICS';

输出

+-------------+----------------------+--------------+-------+
| lev1        | lev2                 | lev3         | lev4  |
+-------------+----------------------+--------------+-------+
| ELECTRONICS | TELEVISIONS          | TUBE         | NULL  |
| ELECTRONICS | TELEVISIONS          | LCD          | NULL  |
| ELECTRONICS | TELEVISIONS          | PLASMA       | NULL  |
| ELECTRONICS | PORTABLE ELECTRONICS | MP3 PLAYERS  | FLASH |
| ELECTRONICS | PORTABLE ELECTRONICS | CD PLAYERS   | NULL  |
| ELECTRONICS | PORTABLE ELECTRONICS | 2 WAY RADIOS | NULL  |
+-------------+----------------------+--------------+-------+

大多数用户都曾经在SQL数据库中处理过层次数据，毫无疑问，他们知道层次数据的管理不是关系数据库的目的。关系数据库的表不是分层的(像XML一样)，而只是一个平面列表。层次数据具有亲子关系，在关系数据库表中不能自然地表示这种关系。 阅读更多

更多细节请参考博客。

编辑:

select @pv:=category_id as category_id, name, parent from category
join
(select @pv:=19)tmp
where parent=@pv

输出:

category_id name    parent
19  category1   0
20  category2   19
21  category3   20
22  category4   21

参考:如何在Mysql中做递归SELECT查询?

我能想到的最好方法是

使用沿袭存储\排序\跟踪树。这已经足够了，而且阅读速度比其他任何方法都要快数千倍。 它还允许即使DB将改变也保持该模式(因为任何DB将允许使用该模式) 使用为特定ID确定谱系的函数。 您可以随心所欲地使用它(在选择中，或在CUD操作中，甚至按作业)。

谱系方法描述。可以在任何地方找到，例如 这里或者这里。 至于功能，这就是我的灵感所在。

在最后-得到或多或少简单，相对快速，简单的解决方案。

函数的身体

-- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Routine DDL
-- Note: comments before and after the routine body will not be stored by the server
-- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DELIMITER $$

CREATE DEFINER=`root`@`localhost` FUNCTION `get_lineage`(the_id INT) RETURNS text CHARSET utf8
    READS SQL DATA
BEGIN

 DECLARE v_rec INT DEFAULT 0;

 DECLARE done INT DEFAULT FALSE;
 DECLARE v_res text DEFAULT '';
 DECLARE v_papa int;
 DECLARE v_papa_papa int DEFAULT -1;
 DECLARE csr CURSOR FOR 
  select _id,parent_id -- @n:=@n+1 as rownum,T1.* 
  from 
    (SELECT @r AS _id,
        (SELECT @r := table_parent_id FROM table WHERE table_id = _id) AS parent_id,
        @l := @l + 1 AS lvl
    FROM
        (SELECT @r := the_id, @l := 0,@n:=0) vars,
        table m
    WHERE @r <> 0
    ) T1
    where T1.parent_id is not null
 ORDER BY T1.lvl DESC;
 DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR NOT FOUND SET done = TRUE;
    open csr;
    read_loop: LOOP
    fetch csr into v_papa,v_papa_papa;
        SET v_rec = v_rec+1;
        IF done THEN
            LEAVE read_loop;
        END IF;
        -- add first
        IF v_rec = 1 THEN
            SET v_res = v_papa_papa;
        END IF;
        SET v_res = CONCAT(v_res,'-',v_papa);
    END LOOP;
    close csr;
    return v_res;
END

然后你就

select get_lineage(the_id)

希望它能帮助到一些人:)

我发现更容易做到:

1)创建一个函数，检查一个项目是否在另一个项目的父层次结构中的任何地方。就像这样(我不会写函数，用WHILE DO):

is_related(id, parent_id);

在你的例子中

is_related(21, 19) == 1;
is_related(20, 19) == 1;
is_related(21, 18) == 0;

2)使用子选择，就像这样:

select ...
from table t
join table pt on pt.id in (select i.id from table i where is_related(t.id,i.id));

我向你提出了一个问题。这将给你递归类别与一个单一的查询:

SELECT id,NAME,'' AS subName,'' AS subsubName,'' AS subsubsubName FROM Table1 WHERE prent is NULL
UNION 
SELECT b.id,a.name,b.name AS subName,'' AS subsubName,'' AS subsubsubName FROM Table1 AS a LEFT JOIN Table1 AS b ON b.prent=a.id WHERE a.prent is NULL AND b.name IS NOT NULL 
UNION 
SELECT c.id,a.name,b.name AS subName,c.name AS subsubName,'' AS subsubsubName FROM Table1 AS a LEFT JOIN Table1 AS b ON b.prent=a.id LEFT JOIN Table1 AS c ON c.prent=b.id WHERE a.prent is NULL AND c.name IS NOT NULL 
UNION 
SELECT d.id,a.name,b.name AS subName,c.name AS subsubName,d.name AS subsubsubName FROM Table1 AS a LEFT JOIN Table1 AS b ON b.prent=a.id LEFT JOIN Table1 AS c ON c.prent=b.id LEFT JOIN Table1 AS d ON d.prent=c.id WHERE a.prent is NULL AND d.name IS NOT NULL 
ORDER BY NAME,subName,subsubName,subsubsubName

这是一把小提琴。