display recursive model data in views cakephp

Question

Let's say that I have a recursive (meaning it has field parent_id, lft and rght) model called in a cakephp application. I want to display this recursive data on a page. I get my data with a find like this:

$recursive_data_results = $this->Model->find('threaded');

This find will give me my data with all the children of each node. Is it possible to display this data on a page without having to loop through every single node and their children node and so on...? I don't want to loop through each node because let's say I have like 15 of them or something, I don't wanna do 15 foreach loops.

Answer 1

If you want nested lists in your view try Nested lists

Otherwise Create helper to handle your data.