threaded comments

[George Thompson]

so i\'ve been trying to build a threaded comments section on my website, with little to no luck trying to figure out how to loop through 2 while loops and load my comments. i\'ve read a lot of different code snippets and comments about this, and seem to get further lost.. here is what im attempting, mysql database looks like this
id
profile_id
parent
type " 'a', 'b' "
comment
datetime
so far ive tried doing it with one query and one loop, and 2 queries and 2 loops, and i only ever get errors or just one parent and one child.... and i have many parents and many children, but children are only one deep... i dont necessarily need the answeres or someone to do this for me, but maybe someone know a good easy to understand tutorial i can go through to help me unserstand... thanks

[Rabbit]

Can you post an example of what you mean by threaded comments?

[George Thompson]

I'm not on my computer right now so hope this can help clarify. If not I can try posting some code.
By threaded comments I'm talking about comments people leave for others. I hate to say it. But. Like facebook. Or better yet like YouTube. Structured like this
Parent
Child
Child
Parent
Parent
Child

[Rabbit]

Can't a child also be a parent?

[George Thompson]

In some instances they can be. But for what I'm tryingto do I don't want children to be parents

[Rabbit]

I suppose you would do something like this

sql = "select parents from comments"

for each row in sql
   output sql.comment
   sql2 = "select children from comments where parent = " + sql.parent
   
   for each row in sql2
      output sql2.comment
   next
next

[George Thompson]

thats it... thank you so much. i tweaked it a little but thats it, and its working great... :D

[omerbutt]

you must select the right answer to the question if you think he has provided you with the solution , so that this could be helpful to any one else who comes here googling.
regards,
Omer Aslam