ho risolto cosi:
Codice PHP:
public function display_($parent=0) {        
$query$this->connect->query("SELECT * FROM ".tb_menu." WHERE parent=".$parent);        
$i=0;        
while (
$row mysqli_fetch_assoc($query)) {            
if(
$row['parent']>=0){                
echo 
"<li class='togliSpazio'><a ".(strlen($row['label'])>=30 " style='text-align:left;line-height:".($row['parent']>"20px;width:90%" "18px")."'" "")." href='#' ".($row['parent']=="class='accordion'" "").">"utf8_encode($row['label'])."</a>";                
echo 
"<ul data-index='".$i."' class='panel togliSpazio'>";            
}            
$this->display_($row['id']);           
echo 
"</ul></li>";            
$i++;        
}    

Grazie mille.