Organization Chart

This PHPMaker 2024 project will show you how to create Organization Chart, and display it by using Tree Structure.

Usually, we will doing some research in order to find out, which method that should be used to handle the hierarchical data in order to create Organization Structure/Tree. Well, the Closure Table is the most effective and efficient way to handle it.

After that, we have to implement it by ourselves into our web application. We need to know how to create a new node that sits on top of structure, add child node, move a node below another, and so forth. We will also need to know how to generate the data that will build the Organization Structure/Tree. All of those things, of course, take lots of time.

By using this PHPMaker project, then we will save lots of our time to develop web application that contains Organization Structure/Tree, since we have already had the tables schema that we need to handle CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) hierarchical data, including a few lines of code via some Server Events in order to create an Organization Structure/Tree.

Now we can display all the Organization Structure simply from one single page. That means, we can also manage add a new node, move the existing node, create a new structure, remove the node, and so forth from one single page only. This is the smartest way to display all the structures.

This project also has the ability to create a Tree Structure for each Organization that we have already defined before. So let’s call it with Organization Tree. There are two types of Organization Tree. The First Organization Tree will have the ability to collapse/expand the certain level, and it is read-only. This is very useful if we want to display the simple style.

The Second Organization Tree will have the ability to manage the node in Organization Tree, such as Add, View, Edit, Move within the same structure, Move to another structure, and so forth. We can also change the information (person and/or his/her occupation), too. It takes more space to display the Organization Tree if compare to the first one above.

We will also learn how to create and use Recursive Function in PHP in order to generate the Organization Tree very fast. Only a simple function but can read data hierarchical without any limitation for its depth. Creating Organization Structure/Tree has never been easier.

Last but not least, this project includes 3 following menu items that will restore data as follows:

1. Restore Empty Data, this will empty all data in database.
2. Restore Data Minimum, this will restore with minimum data, which will include the references data, but not with the data for build Organization Structure/Tree.
3. Restore Data Sample, this will restore with data sample, including data to build Organization Structure/Tree sample.

So, feel free to play with this demo project, since you can restore the data sample anytime!