Hiya Marek K, Thanks for the link, however on that page the links regarding a "Modified Preorder Tree Traversal Algorithm" come up as 404. I would prefer not to use recursion until the third stage (display of menu). In fact I know, I will not use recursion for the first or second, simply because for each addition/change a recursion seems and is an overkill. The idea here is to have very elegant and simple code that can also be used in other classes/projects. I'm pretty much going to stick to what I have already where the only recursion that occurs is in the third stage (display of menu). One thing I forgot to add to in my original email is that the $element property also has an order id(int) for displaying the menus in particular order. My first and the second stage allow me to change/add elements directly without searching for them. Whereas the display does a recursion that displays in order. All of this done within php, so first and the second stage in reality is like an indexed stack. The third stage might get a little tricky due to the order property... if you have any ideas/tricks, please let me know. Thanks Marek J ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marek Kilimajer" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Marek" <marek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 5:49 AM Subject: Re: Working with Multi by Multi levels menu > Marek wrote: > > Hello > > > > Creating a three dimensional menu system is pretty easy with arrays, but > > when you want to create a menu system that is 10 or 15 levels deep using > > arrays the conventional method is not so simple. > > > > I'm writing an application that shows a multi level (up to 30 levels) menu > > which is generated dynamically not in any particular order. There are three > > stages: > > > > First stage, generates the levels of the menu and assigns titles, > > Second stage needs to come the levels and change its properties, ie icon, > > font, colour, etc. This is a critical part of the process as the menus are > > not generated in any order and this stage also changes the properties of the > > level not in any particular order. > > The third stage needs to display this menu. > > > > My search on hotscripts and google didn't turn up anything that's relevant. > > I know I can write a recursive function for each of these stages, but thats > > not the best method. > > One recursive function that will take care of all stages. > > I'm not sure what table design you desided use, at level this deep you > might use Flat Table or Modified Preorder Tree Traversal Algorithm: > http://www.evolt.org/article/Four_ways_to_work_with_hierarchical_data/17/404 7/ > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
