Some how, some way I figured out how to display the comments. It's a total butcher job of the code, a better programmer probably would have some elegant way to do this with recursion or something, instead I just used three for loops. But hey, it's working! Good example of comments displaying (even third tier level) is shown on this page:
http://www.stickvise.com/blog/2
Here is the new print_comments function I made to brute force the display of comments in the correct nested manner. I
// print_comments function
function print_comments($comments) {
// loop through comments array
echo '<ul>';
foreach($comments as $comment_object1) {
// find and print first tier comments
if($comment_object1['reply_to'] == 0) {
echo '
<p><a href="'.$comment_object1['user']['url'].'" target="_blank">'.$comment_object1['user']['screen_name'].'</a><br />
'.$comment_object1['comment'].'
</p>';
// loop through comments array again to find second tier comments
echo '<ul>';
foreach($comments as $comment_object2) {
// find and print second tier comments replying to the above tier comment
if($comment_object2['reply_to'] == $comment_object1['id']) {
echo '
<p><a href="'.$comment_object2['user']['url'].'" target="_blank">'.$comment_object2['user']['screen_name'].'</a><br />
'.$comment_object2['comment'].'
</p>';
// loop through comments array third time to find third tier comments
echo '<ul>';
foreach($comments as $comment_object3) {
// find and print third tier comments replying to the second tier comment
if($comment_object3['reply_to'] == $comment_object2['id']) {
echo '
<p><a href="'.$comment_object3['user']['url'].'" target="_blank">'.$comment_object3['user']['screen_name'].'</a><br />
'.$comment_object3['comment'].'
</p>';
}
}
echo '</ul>'; // end third tier comments
}
}
echo '</ul>'; // end second tier comments
}
}
echo '</ul>'; // end first tier comments
} // end print_comments()
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