I've found a few examples of using optgroup, but they all seem to be missing what i'm looking for In the db, table with some parent_ids (in same table). id name parent_id 1 Test 0 2 Test2 0 3 WithChild 0 9 Child 3

I am already php hacking to build my array that basically looks like this

[0] => Array
        [id] => 1
        [name] => Test
 )

[1] => Array
    (
        [id] => 2
        [name] => Test2
      
    )

[2] => Array
    (
        [id] => 3
        [name] => WithChild
        [_children] => Array
            (
                [0] => Array
                    (
                        [id] => 9
                        [name] => Child

And i am having problems with creating the following.

                                <select>
                                    <option value="1">Test</option>
                                    <option value="2">Test2</option>
                                    <optgroup label="With Child">
                                          <option value="9">Child</option>
                                       etc

I can(and am at the moment), hack it with normal php. But cannot work out the laravel way to do it

Any suggestions please ?