Tag: nested set

Posted by kevin
December 29, 2009

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Introduction to Doctrine’s Nested Set

A common problem requirement among developers is to store hierarchial data to a flat file database. You have probably come across the parent/child methodology whereby a table has a typical ‘parent’ column that references, you guessed it, its parent – this method is also known as adjacency list model. Querying in this way can often [...]