Of course! Thank you.
Nate

-----Original Message-----
From: M. Sokolewicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 11:03 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP] Re: recursive function not returning anything..

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>    function recursePathLookup($CatID, $Path = array()) {
> 
>       //Get the catid for this subcat
> 
>       $sql = "SELECT SubCategoryID, Name FROM categories WHERE CategoryID
=
> '".$CatID."'";
> 
>       $query = mysql_query($sql);
> 
>       if(mysql_num_rows($query) == 1) {
> 
>          $data = mysql_fetch_array($query);
> 
>          $Path[] = $data["Name"];
> 
>          recursePathLookup($data["SubCategoryID"], $Path);
change to:
return recursePathLookup($data["SubCategoryID"], $Path);

> 
>       } else {
> 
>          //print_r($Path);
> 
>          return $Path;
> 
>       }
> 
>    }
> 
>  
> 
>    print_r(recursePathLookup(2));
> 
>  
> 
> Any ideas why when I uncomment the //print_r($Path) inside the function it
> prints the value fine, but when I try to return the value and print it
> outside the function I get nothing?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nate
> 
> 

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