Im building a Threaded Comment System for a website of mine and I ran into a problem...
I have a list PULLED FROM A DATABASE that has a ID field and a Parent ID Field. The parent ID field can be null, but the ID field will NEVER be null.
Since this will be a threaded comment system, I organize the list to where the ID is the top one, but if a parent ID exists, then it would be inserted under the ID. Then this can go on for infinity also. So the second level now also has an ID and and I want to insert any item with a parent ID of that ID under it.
For example:
---1. Blah
--------2. Blah Blah -> ParentID=1
-----------3. Blah Blah -> parentID=2
-------------- 4. Blah Blah ->parentID=3
----------- 3.Blah Blah -> parentID=2
--------2. Blah Blah -> parentID=1
I think you get the point.
So here is what I have so far...
List<comment> finalList = new List<comment>();
for (int i = 0; i < getComments.Count(); i++)
{
string item = getComments[i].parentComment;
getComments[i].threadID = 1;
finalList.Add(getComments[i]);
for (int ii = 0; ii < getComments.Count(); ii++)
{
if (getComments[ii].commentID == item)
{
getComments[ii].threadID = 2;
finalList.Add(getComments[i]);
}
}
}
It seems to sort it half way, but not truly... The ThreadID is of course how far it gets planted to the right.
Thanks all for your help guys. I do appreciate it.
I did though, find something by a guy that wrote absolutely everything for it.
http://www.scip.be/index.php?Page=ArticlesNET23