Menu can be easily populated from the database. Following are the table and menu used for this example:

ID Title ParentId 0 Fruit -1 1 Apple 0 2 Orange 0 3 Pear 0 4 Banana 0 5 Cars -1 6 Ford 5 7 Chevy 5 8 Mercury 5 9 Aston Martin 5 10 Volvo 5 11 Cities -1 12 New York 11 13 Chicago 11 14 San Francisco 11 15 Los Angeles 11 16 Miami 11

Fruit Apple Orange Pear Banana Cars Ford Chevy Mercury Aston Martin Volvo Cities New York Chicago San Francisco Los Angeles Miami

For classic ASP, please download this example: classicASPDB.zip

For .NET, this example with access database is available in NETDB.zip

<%@ Page Language="C#" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="osm" Namespace="OboutInc.SlideMenu" Assembly="obout_SlideMenu3_Pro_Net" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Data.OleDb" %>

<script runat="server">

    void Page_Load(object o, EventArgs e) {
        OleDbConnection conn = null;
        OleDbDataReader reader = null;
        
        conn = new OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; " + "Data Source=" 
        + Server.MapPath("menu.mdb"));
        conn.Open();

        OleDbCommand cmd = new OleDbCommand("SELECT * FROM MenuItems ORDER BY ParentId, ID", conn);
        reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();

        while(reader.Read()) {

            if(reader["ParentId"].ToString().Equals("-1"))
                myMenu.AddParent("p" + reader["ID"].ToString(),reader["Title"].ToString());
            else
                myMenu.AddChildAt("c" + reader["ID"].ToString(), "p" + reader["ParentId"].ToString(),
                reader["Title"].ToString(), 
                                              null, null, null);

        }
        
        reader.Close();
        conn.Close();
    }

</script>

<osm:SlideMenu runat="server" ID="myMenu" StyleFolder="/slidemenu/styles/pro_5" />