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

Parent-child relationship nested Array
Fetch all the record from the database and creating nested array.

$data = SampleTable::find()->all();
$tree = buildTree($data);
print_r($tree);

public function buildTree(array $elements, $parentId = 0) {
    $branch = array();
    foreach ($elements as $element) {
        if ($element['iParentId'] == $parentId) {
            $children =buildTree($elements, $element['iCategoriesId']);
            if ($children) {
                $element['children'] = $children;
            }
            $branch[] = $element;
        }
    }
    return $branch;
}

Print Categories and Sub-categories data in json Format

public static function buildTree(array $elements, $parentId = 0){
    $branch = array();
    foreach($elements as $element){
        if($element['iParentId']==$parentId){
            $children =buildTree($elements, $element['iCategoriesId']);
            if ($children) {
                $element['children'] = $children;

            }
                $branch[] = array(
                    'iCategoriesId' => $element->iCategoriesId,
                    'iParentId'=>$element->iParentId,
                    'vCategoriesName'=>$element->vCategoriesName,
                    'children'=>$element->children,
            );
        }
    }
    return[
        $branch
    ];
}