How do I get all children that fall under a parent in eloquent?

Question

In my database, I have a Categories table. Categories can have parent categories, making it a recursive relationship

I also have a products table. Each product falls

Answer 1

Suppose your Model name is Category

Create a function on Category model

public function children() { return $this->hasMany('App\Category', 'parent_id', 'id'); }

Using above method on your controller

$categories = Category::with('children')->where('parent_id',0)->get();