Laravel major changes

Hello, I have a select box that is foreach from mine controller and i need some if statement if the user have this id inside him profile then it must give 'selected' Array looks like: [{"id":2,"title":"Default Pool","_lft":2,"_rgt":7,"parent_id":1,"created_at":"2019-04-12 18:27:50","updated_at":"2019-04-12 18:27:50"},{"id":3,"title":"sdf","_lft":3,"_rgt":4,"parent_id":2,"created_at":"2019-04-12 18:35:46","updated_at":"2019-04-12 18:35:46"}] code inside mine controller is: $toewijzen = function ($categories, $prefix = '') use (&$toewijzen, $poolnaam) { foreach ($categories as $category) { echo PHP_EOL."<option value=".$category->id.">".$prefix.' '.$category->title."</option>"; $toewijzen($category->children, $prefix.'&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp'); } }; Project need to be done from mine teamviewer.