Form select box {!!Form::select()!!}

Change the null (3rd) argument to the saved worktypes; e.g.

{!!Form::select('worktype_id[]', $worktypes_list, $thing->worktypes->pluck('id'), ['class' => 'form-control'])!!}

Thank you very much! It works flawlessly :)

Now, one question out of the topic....where can i read or if you could tell me how to format code like you did? So that it has black background and keywords in other color? Here on forum.

@Ober4You you have to wrap the code with three backticks ```

Hmmm but it's not black :)

I just can't get it right

It is for me :D

You need three backticks on their own line, then your code, and finally close out the backticks

I have another problem now....when i pull data from my DB like this

{!! Form::select('name', $worktypes->pluck('name'), $workedtime->worktype->id, ['class' => 'form-control']) !!}

the select options have values from 0 to 12 and i want to have them from 1 to 13

How can i set values start from 1 instead from 0?

<option value="0" selected="selected">first</option>
<option value="1">second</option>
<option value="2">third</option>
<option value="3">fourth</option>
<option value="4">fifth</option>
<option value="5">sixth</option>
<option value="6">seventh</option>
<option value="7">eight</option>
...

Could you explain why you want to do this?

If you change the values of the option fields you have to reduce this value by one in the controller to communicate with the database.

what i really want is to have value from select correspond to ID of selected value from DB

it should be:

<option value="3">third</option>

and not

<option value="2">third</option>

So in default Form builder:

{!! Form::select('name', $worktypes->pluck('name'), $workedtime->worktype->id, ['class' => 'form-control']) !!}

first comes the name then the values of select and then default selected i just want to somehow get rid of 0...or set it to something else....or maybe array_merge....but i don't know how to do it....maybe someone did this before

if you want to keep the same id for each element use Pluck : Controller : $worktypes= Worktype::pluck('name','id'); return view('edit')->compact(''worktypes');

View: {!! Form::select('name', $worktypes, null, ['class' => 'form-control']) !!} this will display each name with a ID on value

too bad that blade - as powerful as it is - is just a bag of code with no documented specifications. Those found on the laravel.com site are sparse - nothing said about selects. even the official pdf doc has a long section on the blade templating engine but never talked about forms at all. so to know where what and what fits in to where, you have to start scribbling through the illuminate folder and go through an unending list of class declarations. it's a real hassle. I'd rather stick to html 5.

Like #Ober4You,

I having the same issues with my values not matching up and my dropdown is also giving me the values as an array...

Here's what I have in my PostsController...

public function edit(Post $post)
{
    $categories = Category::all()->pluck('title', 'id')->toArray();

    return view('posts.edit')->withPost($post)->withCategories($categories);

and here's my edit.blade...

{{ Form::label('category_id', 'Category :')}}
{!! Form::select('category_id', $categories, null, ['class' => 'form-control']) !!}

I have tried the few different ways suggested above, but I'm still having these issues, "need little help"?