[PHP] Re: Re: creating a threaded message system--sorting messages

2006-06-29 Thread Ben Liu
On 6/29/06, Adam Zey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just throwing an idea out there, but you can do the sorting entirely in the SQL query. The trick is to figure out the best way. The first idea that came to mind (and it sucks, but it works), is a text field with padded numbers separated by dots,

RE: [PHP] Re: Re: creating a threaded message system--sorting messages

2006-06-29 Thread KermodeBear
Sounds like that darn Hierarchial Data again. Give this a read and see if it helps you out at all. In particular, you may find the area 'Finding the Depth of the Nodes' helpful. http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/hierarchical-data.html Hope it helps, -K.Bear -- PHP General Mailing

[PHP] Re: Re: creating a threaded message system--sorting messages

2006-06-29 Thread Ben Liu
SOLVED, almost. I read the article suggested by K.Bear and found the recommended solution to be a bit more complicated than I wanted to implement. I then found another way to do this using the existing Adjacency List Model through a recursive function. So basically, you query the database for the