This seems like a pretty common task I want to do, but I can't wrap my head around the cfloops and cfqueries.
I have a database full of photo galleries. They all have an ID and a ParentID (except the root galleries - their ParentID is blank), and they can go multiple levels deep. Here's an example of the gallery structure:
I want to automatically output this structure above into nested ul's and li's (just like above). How is that done? I can't wrap my head around the placement of the ul's and li's to display the hierarchy levels correctly.
I guess the simpliest solution would be to use Query of Query...
If the dataset is huge, try <cftree>
and populate the leaves on demand.
I would use a query of queries to do this recursively.
Note: the code below is NOT tested, so please treat is as example psuedocode.
<cfquery query="qReadAllData">
select * from your_table
</cfquery>
<!--- Read all roots (no parent ID) --->
<cfquery query="qReadRoots" dbtype="query">
select nodeID from qReadAllData
where parentID is null
</cfquery>
<ul>
<cfloop query="qReadRoots">
<cfset processNode(qReadRoots.nodeID) />
</cfloop>
</ul>
<cffunction name="processNode" output="true">
<cfargument name="nodeID" type="any" />
<!--- Check for any nodes that have *this* node as a parent --->
<cfquery query="LOCAL.qFindChildren" dbtype="query">
select nodeID from qReadAllData
where parentID = #ARGUMENTS.nodeID#
</cfquery>
<cfif LOCAL.qFindChildren.recordcount>
<!--- We have another list! --->
<li>
<ul>
<!--- We have children, so process these first --->
<cfloop query="LOCAL.qFindChildren">
<!--- Recursively call function --->
<cfset processNode(LOCAL.qFindChildren.nodeID) />
</cfloop>
</ul>
<li>
<cfelse>
<!--- We have no more children, so we just output the value --->
<li>#nodeID#<li>
</cfif>
</cffunction>
It's late. I'm tired. I hope this is right :)
This is a mix of both SQL and Coldfusion. It's probably not the best to format the label in SQL Server, but it does give the desired format.
SQL:
CREATE TABLE testTable(id int, parentID int)
INSERT INTO testTable(id, parentID) VALUES
(1, NULL)
, (2, 1)
, (3, 1)
, (4, NULL)
, (5, 4)
, (6, 5)
, (7, 5)
, (8, 4)
Coldfusion:
<cfscript>
qs = new query();
qs.setDatasource("datasource");
qs.setSQL("
;WITH cte AS
(
SELECT t.ID, t.parentID, 1 AS level,
CAST(DENSE_RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY t.parentID ORDER BY t.ID) AS varchar(max)) AS label
FROM testTable t
WHERE parentID IS NULL
UNION ALL
SELECT t.ID, t.parentID, cte.level + 1 AS level,
CAST(cte.label AS varchar(max)) + ' - ' + CAST(DENSE_RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY t.parentID ORDER BY t.ID) AS varchar(max)) AS label
FROM testTable t
INNER JOIN cte ON cte.ID = t.parentID
)
SELECT *,
DENSE_RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY parentID ORDER BY ID) AS [order]
FROM cte
ORDER BY label
");
qMenu = qs.execute().getResult();
oldLevel = 0;
for (i=1;i<=qMenu.recordCount;i++){
if (qMenu.level[i] > oldLevel) {
WriteOutput("<ul>");
}
while (qMenu.level[i] < oldLevel) {
WriteOutput("</ul>");
oldLevel--;
}
WriteOutput("<li>" & qMenu.label[i] & "</li>");
oldLevel = qMenu.level[i];
}
do {
WriteOutput("</ul>");
oldLevel--;
} while (oldLevel > 0);
</cfscript>
Here you go, if you give the actual data structure I'll alter to match your actual fields :
You can add a depth and lineage(fullPath) column to your table, then you can just do one simple select to get the heirarchy and output it accordingly. One query, done.
WHILE EXISTS (SELECT * FROM Tree WHERE levelDeep Is Null)
UPDATE T SET T.levelDeep = P.levelDeep + 1,
T.fullPath= P.fullPath+ Ltrim(Str(T.ParentNode,6,0)) + '/'
FROM Tree AS T
INNER JOIN Tree AS P ON (T.ParentNode=P.Node)
WHERE P.levelDeep >=0
AND P.fullPathIs Not Null
AND T.levelDeep Is Null
Here's what you need :
T-SQL Stored Procedure for Looping a hierarchy with recursion
Let me know if you need help implementing it with your table
Update: See new answer with query to update with depth for easy select / output.