Body: <p>How do I get all of an entry's children using the Element API?</p>
  
  <p>I want to return something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>data: [
      title: 'Root Entry'
      uri: 'root-entry'
      children: [
          {
              title: 'Level 2 Entry'
              uri: 'level-2-entry-1'
              children: [
                  {
                      title: 'Level 3 Entry'
                      uri: 'level-3-entry'
                      children: [...]
                  },
              ]
          },
          {
              title: 'Level 2 Entry'
              uri: 'level-2-entry-2'
              children: [...]
          },
          {
              title: 'Level 2 Entry'
              uri: 'level-2-entry-3'
              children: [...]
          },
      ]
  ]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would want to get all entries up to the depth level of 4. Some entries wont have children past level 3 and some wont have any past level 2. I have tried doing a for loop traversal but cannot figure out why <code>$entry-&gt;children</code> returns everything but children entries.</p>
  
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 4.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2019-12-03T01:13:58.987Z
Comments.Text: Perhaps an obvious question, but have you tried the standard **{% nav entry in entries %}** loop? That should get all children and children's children.
Comments.UserDisplayName: 4midori
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 4.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2019-12-03T17:22:08.963Z
Comments.Text: Sorry I forgot to mention that I was using the Element API plugin for getting the entries
Comments.UserDisplayName: kayq
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 4.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2019-12-07T21:50:24.613Z
Comments.Text: [This post](https://craftcms.stackexchange.com/a/32751/3630) should help achieve what you need.
Comments.UserDisplayName: Oli
Tags: <entries><plugin-elementapi>
Title: How to get an Entry in structure and all of its children and it's children's children with Element APi?
ThreadText: # How to get an Entry in structure and all of its children and it's children's children with Element APi?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-12-03)
  
  How do I get all of an entry's children using the Element API?
  
  I want to return something like:
  
  ```
  data: [
      title: 'Root Entry'
      uri: 'root-entry'
      children: [
          {
              title: 'Level 2 Entry'
              uri: 'level-2-entry-1'
              children: [
                  {
                      title: 'Level 3 Entry'
                      uri: 'level-3-entry'
                      children: [...]
                  },
              ]
          },
          {
              title: 'Level 2 Entry'
              uri: 'level-2-entry-2'
              children: [...]
          },
          {
              title: 'Level 2 Entry'
              uri: 'level-2-entry-3'
              children: [...]
          },
      ]
  ]
  
  ```
  
  I would want to get all entries up to the depth level of 4. Some entries wont have children past level 3 and some wont have any past level 2. I have tried doing a for loop traversal but cannot figure out why `$entry->children` returns everything but children entries.
  
  **Tags:** entries, plugin-elementapi
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Perhaps an obvious question, but have you tried the standard **{% nav entry in entries %}** loop? That should get all children and children's children.  
  > **username_0**: Sorry I forgot to mention that I was using the Element API plugin for getting the entries  
  > **username_2**: [This post](https://craftcms.stackexchange.com/a/32751/3630) should help achieve what you need.  
  
  ---
  
  ## 0 answers
  
  