Posted by HawkEye on 11/19/05 02:01

J.O. Aho wrote:
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>
>
> It's not impossible, but requires some thinking and at least at first not
> think much about how ugly it may look.
>
>
> I would start of making a HTML-table where you print the head in the first
> row/cell, on the second row I would create new tables with the subs to the
> head. Inside each of the tables I would set on the second row the subs to the
> subs in their own tables and keep on doing that until you managed to print out
> everything you need.
>
>
> +--------------------------------------------------------+
> | HEAD |
> +--------------------------------------------------------+
> | +-------------------------+ +------------------------+ |
> | | Sub 1 | | Sub 2 | |
> | +-------------------------+ +------------------------+ |
> | | +---------+ +---------+ | | +--------------------+ | |
> | | | Sub 1 A | | Sub 1 B | | | | Sub 2 A | | |
> | | +---------+ +---------+ | | +--------------------+ | |
> | +-------------------------+ +------------------------+ |
> +--------------------------------------------------------+
>
> You may need to use some kind of recursive function for this, and this would
> work dynamically, a change to the organization and the page would look
> different without need of code change.
>
>
> Sorry no code example, but it will not be that difficult for you, I think.
>
>
> //Aho
>

Thanks, I was hopping to avoid tables and that sort of recurstion but I
think your right. It is the only way to do it. The MPTT method is very nice
requiring only one SQL call but positioning things afterwards is a nightmare :)

Cheers for the help.

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Neil

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