[eluser]jedd[/eluser]
First, post your schema rather than just your table names.
[quote author="liam1412" date="1251864552"]
What I need is a multi dimensional array that would hold a list of categories and then within each category a list of forums that reside in that category and then within each forum, a post count/thread count.
With my old procedural way I can easy acheive what I want without using arrays, but with MVC I am struggling.
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I'd be fascinated to see how you juggled such hierarchical information absent a single array - can you post your extant code for pulling these data in?