metalinspired/nested-set

PHP library for manipulating and retrieving database records using nested set model technique to represent tree data structure

metalinspired\NestedSet v2

Introduction

This library allows you to manipulate and retrieve database records using nested set model technique to represent tree data structure. It uses Zend\Db as underlying database abstraction layer., _(*1)

Requirements

• PHP >= 5.6
• Zend\Db >= 2.8

Installation

$ composer require metalinspired/nested-set

Usage

(Hybrid) Nested Set

Nested Set requires only left and right columns in table to represent a tree structure. Hybrid Nested Set requires additional parent, ordering and depth columns. This addition makes manipulation more complex but greatly simplifies retrieval of nodes. For example, in order to find siblings of a node we simply query for nodes with same parent, instead of using join to find parent and join to get parent's immediate descendants. Ordering column is used to represent natural order of nodes., _(*2)

Config object

Config class, as name suggests, is used to create an object with predefined configuration for manipulation/selection classes in this utility, and you do so by changing values of its public members. It also has three static methods that create instance of Config object and set its $adapter member to an Zend\DB\Adapter\Driver instance., _(*3)

Example:, _(*4)

// Create Config object with DSN data
$config = Config::createWithDsn('mysql:dbname=some_database;host=localhost', 'some_user', 'some_password');

// Set table name
$config->table = 'some_table';

// If we don't want to retrieve all columns when using find methods 
// we specify which columns we want to fetch
$config->columns = ['column1', 'column5', 'alias_of_column' => 'column7'];

// You can also instruct methods from Find class to include searching node in results
// For example, if you want to get children of node with id 5 including the node with id 5
$config->includeSearchingNode = true;

Manipulation

HybridManipulate and Manipulate classes contain methods for creating (inserting), moving and deleting nodes in nested set model. It also has createRootNode method that creates a root node that serves as a container for all other nodes., _(*5)

Example:, _(*6)

// Create an instance of Manipulate class
$manipulate = new Manipulate($config);

// Create a root node on an empty table
$rootId = $manipulate->createRootNode();

// Create a node
$node1 = $manipulate->insert($rootId, ['column1' => 'some data', 'column2' => 'some more data']);

// Create another node that is child/leaf of first node
$node2 = $manipulate->insert($node, ['column1' => 'child data', 'column2' => 'some more child data']);

// Move node2 so it is on same level as node1
$manipulate->moveAfter($node2, $node1);
// Or we could have moved it in front of node1
$manipulate->moveBefore($node2, $node1);

// Move node2 back to its original position (as child of node1)
$manipulate->moveMakeChild($node2, $root1);

// Delete a node (and all its children, if any)
$manipulate->delete($node);

// You can also empty a node by delete all of its descendants
// or enter a node identifier as second parameter to move descendants to a new location
$manipulate->clean($parentNode, $destinationNode);

Manipulation methods, excluding insert, can also accept array of node identifiers as their first argument, meaning you can move, delete and clean multiple nodes with just one call., _(*7)

Example:, _(*8)

$manipulate->moveBefore([5,6,26,88], 33);

HybridManipulate class has extra method named reorder. It allows you to move a node within its parent by using order column value as destination instead of node identifier., _(*9)

Retrieving records

HybridFind and Find classes contain methods for retrieving records and their names pretty much explain what they do. All you need is to provide them with node identifier ($id argument), all other arguments are options. For arguments list please refer to each function source;, _(*10)

// Create instance of Find class
$find = new Find($config);

$find->findAncestors();
$find->findParent();
$find->findDescendants();
$find->findChildren();
$find->findFirstChild();
$find->findLastChild();
$find->findSiblings();
$find->findNextSibling();
$find->findPreviousSibling();

Each of these methods have an (almost) equal get*Query method (for example getFindAncestorsQuery) which returns Select object instead of ResultInterface. Unlike find methods these methods do not take identifier as argument but instead define an :id placeholder. For usage example simply look at one of find* methods., _(*11)

Important note: Unlike $columns or $where arguments, when using $order argument you must match column names with table t (t is an alias for table you are querying), for example:, _(*12)

$where = new Where();
$where->equalTo('column3', 'some_value');

$find->findChildren(3, ['alias' => 'column1', 'column2'], 't.column4 ASC', $where); 

Factory

Factory encapsulates find and manipulate classes of NestedSet and HybridNestedSet in one class., _(*13)

// Get factory from config object
$factory = $config->getFactory();

// Manually create factory
$factory = new Factory($config);

// Usage examples
$factory->find->findChild();
$factory->manipulate->moveAfter();
$factory->hybridFind->findAncestors();
$factory->hybridManipulate->moveBefore();
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