hi there,
I need a hand with recursion in php.

I've this array:

[Forum] => Array
      (
          [0] => Array
              (
                  [id] => 12
                  [forum_category_id] => 2
                  [parent_id] => 0
                  [forum_post_id] => 0
                  [name] => PHP
                  [description] => 
                  [url] => php
                  [topics] => 0
                  [posts] => 0
                  [order] => 0
                  [topics_per_page] => 20
                  [ForumLastPost] => 
              )

          [1] => Array
              (
                  [id] => 15
                  [forum_category_id] => 2
                  [parent_id] => 0
                  [forum_post_id] => 0
                  [name] => ASP.NET
                  [description] => 
                  [url] => asp_net
                  [topics] => 0
                  [posts] => 0
                  [order] => 0
                  [topics_per_page] => 20
                  [ForumLastPost] => 
              )

                    [...]

          [7] => Array
              (
                  [id] => 21
                  [forum_category_id] => 2
                  [parent_id] => 0
                  [forum_post_id] => 0
                  [name] => Databases
                  [description] => 
                  [url] => databases
                  [topics] => 0
                  [posts] => 0
                  [order] => 0
                  [topics_per_page] => 20
                  [ForumLastPost] => 
              )

          [8] => Array
              (
                  [id] => 22
                  [forum_category_id] => 2
                  [parent_id] => 21
                  [forum_post_id] => 0
                  [name] => MySQL
                  [description] => 
                  [url] => mysql
                  [topics] => 0
                  [posts] => 0
                  [order] => 0
                  [topics_per_page] => 20
                  [ForumLastPost] => 
              )

          [9] => Array
              (
                  [id] => 23
                  [forum_category_id] => 2
                  [parent_id] => 21
                  [forum_post_id] => 0
                  [name] => SQLite
                  [description] => 
                  [url] => ms_sql
                  [topics] => 0
                  [posts] => 0
                  [order] => 1
                  [topics_per_page] => 20
                  [ForumLastPost] => 
              )

          [10] => Array
              (
                  [id] => 24
                  [forum_category_id] => 2
                  [parent_id] => 23
                  [forum_post_id] => 0
                  [name] => 2000
                  [description] => SQL Server 2000
                  [url] => sql_server_2000
                  [topics] => 0
                  [posts] => 0
                  [order] => 1
                  [topics_per_page] => 20
                  [ForumLastPost] => 
              )

      )

I need to get a front page with every of those entries, but the ones that have no parent_id set or 0 need to be in <td> in a table, when the cycle encounters a child (parent_id > 0) need to break the cycle, make an h2 with this parent and then again make a table with their children, when this encounter another parent_id > 0 h2 and then table again, so I can have infinite n-tree recursion.

can somebody please help me out with a parser that generates html like this?
thanks

solved, thanks anyway.

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