Does anyone know how PHPBuilder accoomplishes the connecting of parent messages in it's forums to the replies. I understand the basic principle of such a process, but aside from repeatedly querying the messages and looking for additional replies, I cannot see a way to produce the long connecting line to the original message. Here is a link to one such message.
http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/read.php3?num=2&id=193722&loc=0&thread=193722
Look at the way the replies are connected. They continue to move over until someone replies to the original. Then every message caries the "i.gif" (the up-down line) at the beginning of it's row, rather than the "trans.gif" which is the blank space. Somehow, at each instance of a message, they have already determined the structure of the overall tree? Surprisingly, this seems more difficult to duplicate in practice than I had previously imagined. Any suggestions?
Aaron Zoller
