Re: Working with Multi by Multi levels menu

> Marek wrote: > > Hiya Marek K, > > > > Thanks for the link, however on that page the links regarding a "Modified > > Preorder Tree Traversal Algorithm" come up as 404. > > Then see: > http://www.sitepoint.com/article/hierarchical-data-database/2 This article is specifically for a database driven hierarchical data. Mine has to be memory based(as little as possible), a sort of flat based but yet efficient and elegant. I think I have a solution.. working on it now Thanks > > I would prefer not to use > > recursion until the third stage (display of menu). In fact I know, I will > > not use recursion for the first or second, simply because for each > > addition/change a recursion seems and is an overkill. The idea here is to > > have very elegant and simple code that can also be used in other > > classes/projects. I'm pretty much going to stick to what I have already > > where the only recursion that occurs is in the third stage (display of > > menu). > > > > One thing I forgot to add to in my original email is that the $element > > property also has an order id(int) for displaying the menus in particular > > order. > > > > My first and the second stage allow me to change/add elements directly > > without searching for them. Whereas the display does a recursion that > > displays in order. All of this done within php, so first and the second > > stage in reality is like an indexed stack. The third stage might get a > > little tricky due to the order property... if you have any ideas/tricks, > > please let me know. > > I think flat table model is suited for you just right. Updating it is a > little ugly but it's not that big deal. > > You can also think about caching the result. > >