findBy(['parent' => null], ['name' => 'ASC']); } /** * Gets a tree of TreeViewNode elements. The root elements has $parent as parent. * The treeview is generic, that means the href are null and ID values are set. * * @param StructuralDBElement|null $parent The parent the root elements should have. * * @return TreeViewNode[] */ public function getGenericNodeTree(?StructuralDBElement $parent = null): array { $result = []; $entities = $this->findBy(['parent' => $parent], ['name' => 'ASC']); foreach ($entities as $entity) { /** @var StructuralDBElement $entity */ //Make a recursive call to find all children nodes $children = $this->getGenericNodeTree($entity); $node = new TreeViewNode($entity->getName(), null, $children); //Set the ID of this entity to later be able to reconstruct the URL $node->setId($entity->getID()); $result[] = $node; } return $result; } /** * Gets a flattened hierarchical tree. Useful for generating option lists. * * @param StructuralDBElement|null $parent This entity will be used as root element. Set to null, to use global root * * @return StructuralDBElement[] A flattened list containing the tree elements. */ public function toNodesList(?StructuralDBElement $parent = null): array { $result = []; $entities = $this->findBy(['parent' => $parent], ['name' => 'ASC']); $elementIterator = new StructuralDBElementIterator($entities); $recursiveIterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator($elementIterator, RecursiveIteratorIterator::SELF_FIRST); //$result = iterator_to_array($recursiveIterator); //We can not use iterator_to_array here or we get only the parent elements foreach ($recursiveIterator as $item) { $result[] = $item; } return $result; } }