Forum Laravel 4 : Passing data from database to selectbox using blade

renjithvr4

posted 9 years ago

Views Blade Forms

Last updated 2 years ago.

thepsion5

replied 9 years ago

Solution

$category_list = CategoryModel::lists('id', 'name')

Where 'name' is whatever you want to display as the label. Then, in your form:

{{ Form::select('parent_category', array('' => 'Select Category', '0 ' => 'Main Category') + $category_list) }}

Last updated 2 years ago.

renjithvr4

replied 9 years ago

wow thank you bro. it works. thank you very much. i tried a full day for this result.

Last updated 2 years ago.

hashmatwaziri

replied 8 years ago

Dowloads.blade.php

                      {{ Form::open(array('url' => '/downloads', 'method' => 'post')) }}
	           {{ Form::select('downloads', $download_options, Input::old('platform'), array('id'=> 'filter')) }}
                     {{ Form::submit('Obtain results') }}
                     {{ Form::close() }}

DownloadController.php

                    public function index()
                {
		$download_option = DB::table('downloads')
	         ->distinct('platform')
		 ->groupBy('platform')
		 ->lists('platform', 'id');
                      return View::make('/downloads', array('download_options' => $download_option));
		
	
		}

Last updated 8 years ago.