PHP implementation code to obtain N-layer classification tree from two-dimensional array

The company's product categories are stored in a table, and mid is used to identify its parent category. A hierarchical array needs to be obtained for subsequent operations.

I thought about it, and after thinking for a while, I couldn’t think of a method that didn’t repeatedly read the database or an operation that didn’t require recursion.

Data source: (The data requires that the id of the one-dimensional key and the corresponding value two-dimensional array must be the same)

$items = array(
    1 => array('id' => 1, 'pid' => 0, 'name' => '江西省'),
    2 => array('id' => 2, 'pid' => 0, 'name' => '黑龙江省'),
    3 => array('id' => 3, 'pid' => 1, 'name' => '南昌市'),
    4 => array('id' => 4, 'pid' => 2, 'name' => '哈尔滨市'),
    5 => array('id' => 5, 'pid' => 2, 'name' => '鸡西市'),
    6 => array('id' => 6, 'pid' => 4, 'name' => '香坊区'),
    7 => array('id' => 7, 'pid' => 4, 'name' => '南岗区'),
    8 => array('id' => 8, 'pid' => 6, 'name' => '和兴路'),
    9 => array('id' => 9, 'pid' => 7, 'name' => '西大直街'),
    10 => array('id' => 10, 'pid' => 8, 'name' => '东北林业大学'),
    11 => array('id' => 11, 'pid' => 9, 'name' => '哈尔滨工业大学'),
    12 => array('id' => 12, 'pid' => 8, 'name' => '哈尔滨师范大学'),
    13 => array('id' => 13, 'pid' => 1, 'name' => '赣州市'),
    14 => array('id' => 14, 'pid' => 13, 'name' => '赣县'),
    15 => array('id' => 15, 'pid' => 13, 'name' => '于都县'),
    16 => array('id' => 16, 'pid' => 14, 'name' => '茅店镇'),
    17 => array('id' => 17, 'pid' => 14, 'name' => '大田乡'),
    18 => array('id' => 18, 'pid' => 16, 'name' => '义源村'),
    19 => array('id' => 19, 'pid' => 16, 'name' => '上坝村'),
);

The function of the spanning tree:

function genTree9($items) {
    $tree = array();
    foreach ($items as $item)
        if (isset($items[$item['pid']]))
            $items[$item['pid']]['son'][] = &$items[$item['id']];
        else
            $tree[] = &$items[$item['id']];
    return $tree;
}

Of course. If the data meets specific conditions, the function can be reduced to just 5 lines:

function genTree5($items) {
    foreach ($items as $item)
        $items[$item['pid']]['son'][$item['id']] = &$items[$item['id']];
    return isset($items[0]['son']) ? $items[0]['son'] : array();
}

Loop once, memory reference. Save time and space.

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