RE: [PHP] Recursion: Ugh!

Steve Brown <mailto:sbrown25@gmail.com> on Thursday, May 26, 2005 11:47 AM said: > How is your structure being built? Is it hard-coded or dynamic (e.g. > pulled from a DB)? From a database. > We employ a similar "tree" structure for manging > items in our store front. Believe me when I say, its a hell of a lot > easier to only be concerned about the current item rathen then every > item in the sturcture. But what perspective are you coming at this? Let's say you're entering a new product, you'd want to see a list of all the available categories, not just the last node of a branch. I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say. > What I mean is, > if you are looking at the element "Round", don't concern yourself with > "Fruit" or "Long". But I wouldn't be building the entire tree if I were only looking at a specific node. Sorry I am misunderstanding you. Chris.