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    <p>I'm having a little bit of trouble figuring out how to go about this.</p> <p>I am trying to dynamically create drop downs in the end. I currently have this working but I am making 4 ajax calls (1 for each category to get its children) which is unnecessary.</p> <p>My database structure is like so:</p> <p>Columns: id, name, location, category</p> <p>Rows sample data:</p> <p>1, blue, room, color <br> 2, red, garage, color <br> 3, ball, yard, toy <br> 4, truck, box, toy <br> 5, doll, room, toy <br></p> <p>What I am trying to do is first find out all the categories in my table and get a unique value for them. I dont want color listed twice and toy listed 3 times, just 1 for color and 1 for toy as they are both unique.</p> <p>Next, I need to loop through everything again and say Here are all the names under each category.</p> <p>Result would look like:</p> <p>Color = Blue, Red <br> Toy = Ball, Truck, Doll</p> <pre><code>function makeDataPointsTest() { $.ajax({ url: "../db_api.php", type: 'GET', dataType: 'xml', cache: false, data: { sp: "Watson_DataPointsList", type: "xml", params: { category: '' } }, error: function(err) { alert(err.statusText); }, success: function(data) { //This is the data I am getting back from the database. // It is returned as an XML object. var dataTmp = []; //temporary array var dataCats; //var to hold the unique categories $(data).find('dataPoints').each(function(i) { //Node of XML is called DataPoints. var tmp = $(this).find('category').text(); //In each Node (row) find the category name dataTmp.push(tmp); //Push that category name to an array }); dataCats = _.uniq(dataTmp); //using underscore.js I now have each unique category in //the database //Here is where I am stuck //I now need to loop through each node again and create an array that contains each of //the names under each of the categories. } }); } </code></pre> <p>Results structure (data):</p> <pre><code>&lt;root&gt; &lt;dataPoints&gt; &lt;id&gt;1&lt;/id&gt; &lt;name&gt;Blue&lt;/name&gt; &lt;location&gt;Room&lt;/location&gt; &lt;category&gt;Color&lt;/category&gt; &lt;/dataPoints&gt; &lt;dataPoints&gt; &lt;id&gt;2&lt;/id&gt; &lt;name&gt;Red&lt;/name&gt; &lt;location&gt;Garage&lt;/location&gt; &lt;category&gt;Color&lt;/category&gt; &lt;/dataPoints&gt; &lt;dataPoints&gt; &lt;id&gt;3&lt;/id&gt; &lt;name&gt;Ball&lt;/name&gt; &lt;location&gt;Yard&lt;/location&gt; &lt;category&gt;Toy&lt;/category&gt; &lt;/dataPoints&gt; &lt;dataPoints&gt; &lt;id&gt;4&lt;/id&gt; &lt;name&gt;Truck&lt;/name&gt; &lt;location&gt;Box&lt;/location&gt; &lt;category&gt;Toy&lt;/category&gt; &lt;/dataPoints&gt; &lt;dataPoints&gt; &lt;id&gt;5&lt;/id&gt; &lt;name&gt;Doll&lt;/name&gt; &lt;location&gt;Room&lt;/location&gt; &lt;category&gt;Toy&lt;/category&gt; &lt;/dataPoints&gt; &lt;/root&gt; </code></pre> <p>Is there an easy way to go about doing this jquery at this point?</p> <p><strong>This is what I am trying to create dynamically</strong></p> <p>Image: <a href="http://i.stack.imgur.com/3Emec.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.stack.imgur.com/3Emec.png</a></p>
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