Laravel 5.3 category tree implementation?

Question

Laravel

How to correctly implement the relationship between the category parent and child to build a tree?

After all, there is only model 1 , the column in the database - parent_id, allows you to display all categories from the category.
I implement it in such a way that I go through all the categories with a recursive function , where the names are displayed and check if there is a parent, if there is, then it goes into it and so on in a circle.
I'm not sure if this is correct, perhaps in Laravel 5.3 this should be done somehow differently?
How would you do?

Answer 1

nested sets ?

Answer 2

Closure Table. Lara package: https://github.com/franzose/ClosureTable . Works very fast even with a large number of categories/subcategories

Answer 3

elsenot there. We need it as an alternative to the first if'y:

<?php
if(isset($_SESSION['logged_user'])){
    if($_SESSION['logged_user']->id > 0 ){
        echo '<p class="auth">'.$_SESSION['logged_user']->names.'<br>'.$_SESSION['logged_user']->full.' руб</p>';
    }
}
else
{
    echo 123;
}