It sort of makes sense that this is a recursion issue, as I keep hitting the 'You need to know the future' (i.e the next row before it's happened) feeling..
Re: Michael, yes, assume the query is sorted (i.e the depth is how deep the containing UL is). It does my head in. Recursion that is. On 26 August 2010 16:35, Ian Skinner <h...@ilsweb.com> wrote: > > I *THINK* what you are trying to do is a classic problem for a > recursive function. > > Create a function that handles one level of your list with the proper > <ul> and <li> tags. > > Then for each record inside the logic for the <li>... test to see if > there is another level, if so call the same function. > > Rough and incomplete pseudo code. > > <cffunction name="myMenu"...> > .... > <ul> > <cfloop....> > <li> > #anMenuItem# > <cfif anotherLevel>myMenu()</cfif> > <li> > </cfloop> > </ul> > > > <cfreturn theMenu> > </cffunction> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336581 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
