On Mar 1, 2012, at 6:36 PM, Jay Blanchard wrote: > [snip]…stuff…[/snip] > > I am getting close, but I am also getting frustrated. I probably need to walk away for a bit. > > I have an array of tiers…. > > Array > ( > [0] => TIER1DATA > [1] => TIER2DATA > [2] => TIER3DATA > [3] => BUSTIER1DATA > [4] => BUSTIER2DATA > [5] => BUSTIER3DATA > [6] => BUSTIER4DATA > ) > Each of the tiers which represent parents in children in pairs. TIER1DATA is the parent of TIER2DATA, etc. representing 7 columns of data. Here is my code so far - any insight would be valuable and extremely appreciated by me. > > function display_children($i, $child) { > global $dbc; > global $tierArray; > echo $i."<br />"; > /* retrieve children of parent */ > $get = "SELECT DISTINCT `". $tierArray[$i] ."` FROM `POSITION_SETUP` "; > $get .= "WHERE `COMPANY_ID` = '3' "; > if($i > 0) { > $get .= "AND `" . $tierArray[$i - 1] . "` = '" . $child . "' "; > } > echo $get."<br />"; > if(!($result = mysql_query($get, $dbc))) { > echo mysql_errno() . "\t" . mysql_error() . "\n"; > exit(); > } > > while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { > > /* indent and display the title of this child */ > echo str_repeat(' ',$i).$row[$tierArray[$i]]."<br />\n"; > > /* get the children's children */ > display_children($i + 1, $row[$tierArray[$i]]); > } > } > > It does produce the right query for only the first child in each case, I cannot get it to go deeper. I have just been looking at it for too long. TVMIA! Forgot to say that if I isolate any one level without recursion I get all of the results for that level. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php