RecursiveIterator: used to explode tree structure, or only flatten?
- by Stephen J. Fuhry
There are tons of examples of using the RecursiveIterator to flatten a tree structure.. but what about using it to explode a tree structure?
Is there an elegant way to use this, or some other SPL library to recursively build a tree (read: turn a flat array into array of arbitrary depth) given a table like this:
SELECT id, parent_id, name FROM my_tree
EDIT:
You know how you can do this with Directories?
$it = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator("/var/www/images");
foreach(new RecursiveIteratorIterator($it) as $file) {
echo $file . PHP_EOL;
}
.. What if you could do something like this:
$it = new RecursiveParentChildIterator($result_array);
foreach(new RecursiveIteratorIterator($it) as $group) {
echo $group->name . PHP_EOL;
echo implode(PHP_EOL, $group->getChildren()) . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL;
}
:END EDIT
