Select box with first option empty

Question

Does anybody know how can I set in my select box the first option to empty value?

I\'m getting the data from my DB, and I would like to set the option by default as \"P

Answer 1

For a Laravel 5 collection, you may need to convert the collection to array first.

<?php
$defaultSelection = [''=>'Please Select'];
$users = $defaultSelection + $users->toArray();?> 

and apply $users as

{!! Form::select('user', $users); !!}

Answer 2

In laravel 5.2

This worked for me

{!! Form::select('user', $users, null, array('class'=>'form-control', 'placeholder' => 'Please select')) !!}

as I just add placeholder and it made the trick

Answer 3

In Laravel 5.1 i solved it by doing

$categories = [''=>''] + Category::lists('name', 'id')->toArray();
return view('products.create', compact('categories'));

Or

$categories = [''=>''] + Category::lists('name', 'id')->all();
return view('products.create', compact('categories'));

Answer 4

{ !! Form::select('country', $country, 'GB', ['id' = > 'country', 'class' = > 'form-control select2me']) !!}

Here $country is array that contains many countries , in this array is "great britain" by the id "GB" which will be selected by default.

Answer 5

For anyone that needs this behavior, this way is working fine:

Controller:

$entityArray = Entity::lists('name', 'id');
$entityArray->prepend('Select', 'Select');

View:

{!! Form::select('entity', $entityArray) !!}

Answer 6

{{ Form::select('parent_id', [null=>'Please Select'] + \App\Item::where('1','1')->pluck('name', 'id')->toArray()) }}