Wordpress + Horizontal display of recent comments

rochemedia

Hi all,

Anyone any ideas on this.
I have a jQuery marquee on the top of a wordpress site I am finishing off.
I want to display the most recent comments in this marquee scrolling across the top of the screen.
I can get text to scroll across and I can list the most recent comments outside the jquery marquee code but if i put the code to get the most recent comments inside the jquery marquee code, only 1 comment shows (the most recent one)
I understand that the code is no longer looping through the comments but I cant figure out how to fix it.
There are lots of methods and plugins to display the recent comments in a vertical list but I cant find anything for a horizontal list.

Any help would be great thanks

Here is the code involved:

jQuery Marquee:
http://jscroller.markusbordihn.de/example/left/

Get Recent Comments:
<?php
$pre_HTML ="";
$post_HTML ="";
global $wpdb;
$sql = "SELECT DISTINCT ID, post_title, post_password, comment_ID, comment_post_ID, comment_author, comment_date_gmt, comment_approved, comment_type,comment_author_url, SUBSTRING(comment_content,1,30) AS com_excerpt FROM $wpdb->comments LEFT OUTER JOIN $wpdb->posts ON ($wpdb->comments.comment_post_ID = $wpdb->posts.ID) WHERE comment_approved = '1' AND comment_type = '' AND post_password = '' ORDER BY comment_date_gmt DESC LIMIT 10";

$comments = $wpdb->get_results($sql);
$output = $pre_HTML;
$output .= "\n<ul>";
foreach ($comments as $comment) {
$output .= "\n<li>".strip_tags($comment->comment_author) .":" . "<a href=\"" . get_permalink($comment->ID)."#comment-" . $comment->comment_ID . "\" title=\"on ".$comment->post_title . "\">" . strip_tags($comment->com_excerpt)."</a></li>";
}
$output .= "\n</ul>";
$output .= $post_HTML;
echo $output;
?>