Anonymous

function count_kids($post_id) {
	
	global $blog_table;
	
	
	echo "post_id being passed to functions is: $post_id";

	$kid_query = "SELECT post_id FROM $blog_table WHERE parent_id = $post_id";
	$post_kids = mysql_query($kid_query);
	$post_kids_array = mysql_fetch_array($post_kids, MYSQL_ASSOC);
	
	$kids_num = mysql_numrows($post_kids);
	
	echo "<pre>";
	print_r($post_kids_array);
	echo "</pre>";
	
	
	
	if ($kids_num > 0) {
		
		$kid_id[] = array();
		
		for ($i=0; $i<$kids_num; $i++) {
		
			$kid_id[$i] = mysql_result($post_kids, $i, "post_id");
			
			echo "<br />=-=-=-=-=-=-= This is the post_id: $kid_id[$i]";
			
			foreach($kid_id as $child) {
			
				echo "<br />--- callings function again...";
				
				echo "<br /><br />Loop count: $i<br />kid_id = $kid_id[$i]<br />number of kids so far: $number_of_kids<br /><br />";
				$number_of_kids = $number_of_kids + 1;
				count_kids($child);

			} 
		
		}
		
	
	}
	else {
	$number_of_kids = 0;
	return (0);
	}