How to implement a recursive search in Laravel 4? - recursion

Question

I am trying to create a posts <-> comments relationship tables and display the results.
I think I can create all the relationships properly, but I am missing the recursive function in the View to display them correctly. Here is my code:
my posts table is:
id | subject | content |
my comments table is:
id | content | post_id | parent_id
As you can see, I relate the comments table with the posts ones with the "post_id", and relate the comments table to itself with de "parent_id" for those comments that are children of others.
Now, these are my models. For the Post I have:
<?php
class Post extends Eloquent{
public function comments(){//Me captura el primer bloque de replies
return $this->hasMany('Comment')->where('parent_id',0);
}
}
?>
and my Comment Model is:
<?php
class Comment extends Eloquent{
public function posts(){
return $this->belongsTo('Post');
}
public function nestedComment(){
return $this->hasMany('Comment','parent_id');
}
}
?>
I think those relationships should be enough to create the view (which I have no idea how to build using a recursive function), so far I have this:
#if($posts)
#foreach($posts as $post) {{-- for posts --}}
<strong>{{$post->subject}}</strong><br />
#foreach($post->comments as $comment) {{-- for 1st reply --}}
<p id="reply1">{{$comment->content}}</p>
#if($comment->nestedComment->count() >0) {{-- for reply reply --}}
#foreach($comment->nestedComment as $nestedComment)
<p id="reply2">{{$nestedComment->content}}</p>
#endforeach
#endif
#endforeach
#endforeach
#else
#endif
Of course with this type of view I can just get to show the first reply of a reply, but cannot go any deeper...
Any idea about how I can build this View and get to display as deep as the replies are?
Thanks in advanced from Costa Rica.

Answer 1

This is what I am going to try:
function display_comment($comment, $indent) {
echo $indent, $comment, PHP_EOL;
if ( $comment->nestedComment )
display_comment($comment->nestedComment, $indent + INDENT);
}
I haven't been able to implement it though