On Thu, April 7, 2005 1:17 pm, Sebastian said: > i am developing a comment/discussion board and i want to display the > results > in a threaded style. so far i have it all working except this one issue: > > each row has an ID and a parentid, say i have 5 rows: > > id : 10 most oranges come from florida > id : 16 ---- Re: most oranges come from florida (parentid 10) > id : 22 --------- Re: most oranges come from florida (parentid 16) > id : 24 --------- Re: most oranges come from florida (parentid 22) > id : 28 ---- Re: most oranges come from florida (parentid 16) > > i want the rows to know the id directly above itself > so for example, row 5 (id 28) will some how know its parentid (16) is not > directly above it and is not accociated with the result its above (24) > > i want to 'highlight' a row when the parent it belongs to is directly > above > and do nothing if its not. $query = "select ID, parentid from ..."; $lines = mysql_query($query); $last_id = ''; while (list($ID, $parentid) = mysql_fetch_row($lines)){ $class = $last_id == $parentid ? 'highlight' : 'normal'; echo "<span class='$class'>$ID</span><br />\n"; $last_id = $ID; } -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php