> I already developed the patch to support this, but only in HYDRATE_ARRAY mode.
> We plan to incorporate it after more tests, so this will be a
> temporary solution to you. At a later stage, we'll incorporate it as
> Doctrine_Tree_NestedSet::toHierarchy(Doctrine_Collection $collection)

> By not, here is my solution... it adds a __children index in the
> converted array record. You can apply another mapping method to remove
> this index if you're probably converting this to XML.

> Here is the probably to-be added method toHierarchy:

>        public function toHierarchy($collection)
>        {
>                // Trees mapped
>                $trees = array();
>                $l = 0;

>                if (count($collection) > 0) {
>                        // Node Stack. Used to help building the hierarchy
>                        $stack = array();

>                        foreach ($collection as $node) {
>                                $item = $node;
>                                $item['__children'] = array();

>                                // Number of stack items
>                                $l = count($stack);

>                                // Check if we're dealing with different levels
>                                while($l > 0 && $stack[$l - 1]['level'] >= $item['level']) {
>                                        array_pop($stack);
>                                        $l--;
>                                }

>                                // Stack is empty (we are inspecting the root)
>                                if ($l == 0) {
>                                        // Assigning the root node
>                                        $i = count($trees);
>                                        $trees[$i] = $item;
>                                        $stack[] = & $trees[$i];
>                                } else {
>                                        // Add node to parent
>                                        $i = count($stack[$l - 1]['__children']);
>                                        $stack[$l - 1]['__children'][$i] = $item;
>                                        $stack[] = & $stack[$l - 1]['__children'][$i];
>                                }
>                        }
>                }

>                return $trees;
>        }

> And here is the method I use to remove the children index to be
> applied in my record->xml converter

>        protected function _mapHierarchy($data)
>        {
>                $children = $data['__children'];
>                unset($data['__children'], $data['level']);

>                for ($i = 0, $l = count($children); $i < $l; $i++)
>                {
>                        $children[$i] = $this->_mapHierarchy($children[$i]);
>                }

>                return array_merge($data, $children);
>        }

> If you need any assistance, just reply to this message....

> Cheers,

> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 9:39 AM, miros <mmir...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> I have a table that uses nested set.
>> I need to fetch the whole tree and convert it to hierarchical php
>> array.
>> What is the easiest way to do that?

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