What is the best practice to show old value when editing a form in Laravel?

Question

I am writing the logic for an edit form and have some complications when displaying data in the inputs.

When I initially show the form, I show the records values like:

Answer 1

I know this has already been answered but I thought I would leave a little snippet here for others in the future.

Setting old value on input as @ikurcubic posted can be used the same way on radio button or select:

Select option:

default-value) == 'Jeff' ? 'selected' : '' }}>Jeff

Radio Button:

default-value)== "M" ? 'checked' : '' }} />

Another way of doing it; write a small if statement to determine which value should be evaluated:

@php                                  
if(old('name') !== null){
    $option = old('name'); 
}
else{ $option = $database->value; }
@endphp


   Bob
   Jeff

Setting old value of input with an array name e.g name="name[]":

This will give you the old value of the input with an index of 0.

I have tested this and it works.