Nested comments in PHP & MySQL

Question

I searched through the forums but couldn\'t get an authoritative answer. I want to implement a nested comment structure in a way like this:

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Answer 1

I had done something similar for my blogpost. Yet, I just tried out with the same data. When you say nested comments it is better you can use nested functions this way:

function getComments($parent)
{
    # Get the data from SQL.
    # Check if it has nested comments.
    if (hasComments())
        getComments($child); # $child is the ID of the current comment.
}

To make it this way, I have imported your data to MySQL and tried this:

\n";
            while (($dat = mysql_fetch_array($res)) !== false)
                echo "
", $dat["text"], getComments($dat["id"]), "
\n";
            echo "