stew-eucen/fertile-forest

The fertile forest model for hierarchical data in a database on CakePHP plugin

Fertile Forest Model for Plugin of CakePHP 3.x

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This plugin is an implementation of the Fertile Forest Model for CakePHP 3.x., _(*2)

What's Fertile Forest Model?

We know four models for storing hierarchical data in a database., _(*3)

1. Adjacency List Model
2. Path Emuneration Model
3. Nested Sets Model (Nested Intervals Model)
4. Closure Table Model

Fertile Forest Model (= FF Model) is the fifth Model for storing hierarchical data in database. Stew Eucen who is Japanese database engineer discovered it. FF Model has some excellent features than each conventional model., _(*4)

Many libraries of framework use "Nested Sets Model" for storing hierarchical data in RDB. However, we got the new model now. I think that Nested Sets Model will be replaced by FF Model in Future. My plan is that CakePHP 4.x contains ForestBehavior., _(*5)

More information

You can learn more about Fertile Forest Model at:, _(*6)

• Fertile Forest Model (Official)

About Plugin

This is the plugin for CakePHP 3.x. Core files are only two as:, _(*7)

• plugins/FertileForest/src/Model/Behavior/FertileForestBehavior.php
• plugins/FertileForest/src/Model/Entity/FertileForestTrait.php

This is minimum component to use Fertile Forest Model for your projects., _(*8)

Environments

I confirmed this model operation by the environments:, _(*9)

• PHP 5.6.3
• CakePHP 3.1.0
• MySQL 5.6.23

Demo

This plugin contains demo pages for using FertileForestBehavior. You can experience Fertile Forest Model through the demo. Please see:, _(*10)

• Usage of Demo

How to contribute

• If you find a bug, or want to contribute an enhancement or a fix, please send a pull request according to GitHub rules.
  https://github.com/StewEucen/fertile-forest-cakephp-plugin, _(*11)

• Please post in your SNS:, _(*12)

We got the new model for storing hierarchical data in a database.
Stew Eucen did it!

Copyright © 2015 Stew Eucen, released under the MIT license, _(*13)