How to get the Hierarchy recursively in laravel - php

Question

I have 2 tables i.e. users and user_managers, with the following structure and data:
users
id
name
employee_number
1
Employee One
ACB1234
2
Employee Two
XYZ1234
3
Employee Three
EFG1234
4
Employee Four
HIJ1234
user_managers
id
user_id
manager_of_user_id
1
1
2
2
2
3
3
4
1
4
5
4
I want a recursive function to get the complete chain of the managers. For example, if query for user_id = 4, I should get the following result:
result
user_id
name
employee_id
comments
1
Employee One
ABC1234
user managed by 4
2
Employee Two
XYZ1234
user managed by 1
3
Employee Three
EFG1234
managd by user 2
5
Employee Five
JKL1234
manager of user 4
The table above is just for the clarification, I am looking for a recursive function to get the above result.
I have tried the below solution but it is working for only 1 level.
public static function getCompleteChain(User $user)
{
$managerUsers = $user->managers;
foreach ($managerUsers as $manager) {
$manager->user = User::where('employee_id', $manager->manager_of_user_id)->first();
self::getCompleteChain($manager->user);
}
return $managerUsers;
}
Thanks in advance.