Convert a series of parent-child relationships into a hierarchical tree?

Question

I have a bunch of name-parentname pairs, that I\'d like to turn into as few heirarchical tree structures as possible. So for example, these could be the pairings:

Answer 1

Yet Another Function To Make A Tree (no recursion involved, uses references instead):

$array = array('H' => 'G', 'F' => 'G', ..., 'D' => null);

function to_tree($array)
{
    $flat = array();
    $tree = array();

    foreach ($array as $child => $parent) {
        if (!isset($flat[$child])) {
            $flat[$child] = array();
        }
        if (!empty($parent)) {
            $flat[$parent][$child] =& $flat[$child];
        } else {
            $tree[$child] =& $flat[$child];
        }
    }

    return $tree;
}

Returns an hierarchical array like this one:

Array(
    [D] => Array(
        [G] => Array(
            [H] => Array()
            [F] => Array()
        )
        ...
    )
)

Which can easily be printed as a HTML list using recursive function.