A GUI for managing a tree?

[judgej]

Any recommendations on what is available for building and restructuring trees in Laravel? Some approaches that could work:

• Fully drag-and-drop, which could be quite tricky (not seen any decent implementations around).
• Simple list of nodes. The parent for each node can be set, and then they can be moved forward and backwards amongst their siblings. Feels a bit clunky.
• Approaches could be instant update AJAX, or build a tree visually then sync it all up on save. The size of the tree would affect how feasible the latter approach is.

Any other approaches that are both reasonably simple to implement and reasonably understandable to use? Any ready-made solutions or examples to look at?

[judgej]

https://github.com/RubaXa/Sortable is a great front-end for a drag-and-drop GUI for organising items in a single list - sorting siblings. Moving a node to a new parent is a little more tricky, and does not seem to be supported. It kind of almost works.

[Stevildo]

check this out: http://ilikenwf.github.io/example.html

[judgej]

That's pretty nice.

For my last application, I needed to be able to lock the structure of the tree, so items could not be move to other parents, but still needed to be able to change the order of items sharing a single parent.

Would this solution provide options or a callbacks to allow that kind of thing to be enforced?

[Stevildo]

thats what I found out from docu: •It is possible to define elements that will not accept a new nested item/list and a maximum depth for nested items •The root level can be protected •The parentship of items can be locked, just as if it was a family tree.

[judgej]

The parentship of items can be locked, just as if it was a family tree.

Perfect (and described much more clearly than I did). I'll have a play - thank you.

[dineshbabu179]

http://keenthemes.com/preview/metronic/theme/admin_3/ui_nestable.html