How to get parent categories for current subcategory in Laravel?

Question

Laravel

There is a table Categories(id, parent_id, name):
The goal is to display something like this from the controller:
Current section:
Electronics>Computers>Components>Video cards (we are here)

Accordingly, Video cards parent_id points to Accessories, they, in turn, to Computers, until the main category is will output parent_id=0.

I get the current category like this

public function listCategories(Request $request)
    {
      $catID = $request->id;
      $currentCat = \App\Categories::find($catID);
      
     // Текущий путь
     echo '<h5>Текущий путь: '.$currentCat->name.'</h5>';
     }

As I understand it, you can iterate and then cycle through all the upper parent categories to the main one.

Answer 1

Solution found:
Model:

class Categories extends Model
{
        public function parent()
        {
            return $this->belongsTo('\App\Categories', 'parent_id');
        }
        // Add this line if you want the "parents" property to be populated all the time.
        protected $appends = ['parents'];

        public function getParentsAttribute()
        {
            $collection = collect([]);
            $parent = $this->parent;
            while($parent) {
                $collection->push($parent);
                $parent = $parent->parent;
                      }

            return $collection;
        }
}

Controller:

$currentCat = \App\Categories::find($catID);
        $parentCats = Categories::find($catID)->parents->reverse()->push($currentCat);

          echo '<h5> Выбор раздела';
         foreach ($parentCats as $path) {
           echo ' > '.$path->name_ru;
         }
         echo '</h5>';

Ps I display directly in the controller, since ajax xhr (jquery) accesses it.
In the call, respectively, if we want to expand the order, then we use
reverse()
If we want to add the current selected category, then
push($id)
For connoisseurs there is a question why the model did not give out that the class was not found if it was

return $this->belongsTo('Categories', 'parent_id');

and all the way is ok

return $this->belongsTo('\App\Categories', 'parent_id');