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technobard · 08-25-2002, 07:41 AM

mmilano, I understand your frustration. I'd agree that abc123's processNewCat function is a good example of recursion. If you decide to dig further at some later date, do a search on php and recursion. That seems to be the snag.

My lengthy ramble was based on a java app I wrote to construct a navigation sitemap for a large website that was moving to a content management system. PHP is not my strong point, so there may be differences that require a slightly different solution. Anyway, now you've got me curious as to whether I can do this in PHP. I'm going to try it in my spare time. If I get it to work, I'll share the results. It may not be in time to help you now, but maybe for some future project.

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technobard Centurion Nova Prime Join Date: May 2002 Location: Oak Park, IL (USA) Posts: 287	mmilano, I understand your frustration. I'd agree that abc123's processNewCat function is a good example of recursion. If you decide to dig further at some later date, do a search on php and recursion. That seems to be the snag. My lengthy ramble was based on a java app I wrote to construct a navigation sitemap for a large website that was moving to a content management system. PHP is not my strong point, so there may be differences that require a slightly different solution. Anyway, now you've got me curious as to whether I can do this in PHP. I'm going to try it in my spare time. If I get it to work, I'll share the results. It may not be in time to help you now, but maybe for some future project.