dynamic HTML_TreeMenu

Hi, i am trying to use HTML_TreeMenu to build a dynamic treemenu using a mysql database. The db table has the format id, name, parent_id. The row parent_id contains the id of the parent node. I tried to build a recursive function that browses the db table and builds the treemenu. But in fact i was not very successful. Maybe somebody already realizesz something like that or got a litttle help for me. Thanks in advance. Jörn