Most efficient way to fetch and output Content with 2-Level Comments?
- by awegawef
I have some content with up to 2-levels of replies. I am wondering what the most efficient way to fetch and output the replies. I should note that I am planning on storing the comments with fields content_id and reply_to, where reply_to refers to which comment it is in reply to (if any). Any criticism on this design is welcome.
In pseudo-code (ish), my first attempt would be:
# in outputting content CONTENT_ID
all_comments = fetch all comments where content_id == CONTENT_ID
root_comments = filter all_comments with reply_to == None
children_comments = filter all_comments with reply_to != None
output_comments = list()
for each root_comment
children = filter children_comments, reply_to == root_comment.id
output_coments.append( (root_comment, children) )
send output_comments to template
Is this the best way to do this? Thanks in advance.
Edit: On second thought, I'll want to preserve date-order on the comments, so I'll have to do this a bit differently, or at least just sort the comments afterward.
