Laravel 4. Subcategories. What do you think is better?

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Laravel

I am writing a project on Laravel 4 (my first project on this framework). There is multilanguage and subcategories (depth up to 4 nesting categories). I think to implement by specifying the ID of the parent category of each category.
(category "bulka" id 2 parent id 1 "toster").
There is also the option of assigning a "tag" category (taxonomy).
How do you advise to implement this as laravel-way as possible, what alternative and better options do you suggest?

Answer 1

For categories, such things are
suitable Matherialized Path Convenient that each element knows the return path (1.4.6)
Nested Set is convenient in selecting a complete tree of entities, not convenient when the tree changes frequently.
In general, I recommend using Nested Set for categories,
and using Matherialized Path for records.
Then it will be very easy to make such selections
Select all records from category + category 1 > +

Answer 2

can be implemented (hasMany|hasOne)
Here is a detailed description of how to do it:
laravel.ru/articles/odd_bod/eloquent-tutorial
I hope it helps =)

Answer 3

Maybe it's better to use Nested Set? You can take this lib for example https://github.com/etrepat/baum