On 13-Jun-01 Alok K. Dhir wrote:
> Ah recursion. Nothing like it to get your mind tied up in knots... :)
>
> Try this - untested, but this is the basic idea, and it or something
> like it should work. Call the function with the node you want to start
> from and the array you want the results to land in... Like so:
>
> <?
>
> getCategories($startingNodeID,$targetArray);
>
> function getCategories($node,&$array) {
> global $dbh;
> $sql="select child,category from table where parent=$node";
> $sth=mysql_query($sql,$dbh);
> while ($res=mysql_fetch_assoc($sth)) {
> $array[]=$res[category];
> getCategories($res[child],$array);
> }
> return;
> }
>
> ?>
>
... and stomp all over the result-set; getCategories() should open/close
a local connection to the db server.
Regards,
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