Display A Tree Natively

By Alexandre Daubois

PHP has a built-in ASCII tree renderer. In the SPL.

RecursiveTreeIterator takes any recursive structure (arrays, directories, XML…) and outputs a formatted indented tree.

tree command behavior. In PHP. Since 5.3.

Pretty sure I would have use it a few times if I knew it existed 😅.

See Also

• RecursiveTreeIterator (PHP manual)

• RecursiveIterator (PHP manual)

• tree and iterator [Try me]

PHP Features

• iterator

• tree

• render