Getting selected option on edit form in laravel

Question

I have an editable form for my website orders and I have these fields:

User quantity note status

I also have other options in this form, but only these fields are important to me in order to be able to get the default values.

For example, I want to be able to see the amount of quantity that a user has ordered by default and then I could change it or leave it alone. Currently all my drop-down values start from the first value and not what the user has chosen.

How can I do that?

This is my form:

{{ Form::model($order, array('route' => array('orders.update', $order->id), 'method' => 'PUT', 'files' => true)) }}

                <div class="form-group">
                  <label class="col-md-3 control-label" for="type">Order ID</label>
                  <div class="col-md-9 inputGroupContainer">
                    <div class="input-group">
                      <span class="input-group-addon"><i class="fa fa-file-word-o"></i></span>
                      <input class="form-control" type="text" name="" value="{{ $order->id }}" readonly>
                    </div>
                  </div>
                </div>


                <div class="form-group">
                  <label class="col-md-3" for="invoice_nu">Invoice Number:</label>
                  <div class="col-md-9 inputGroupContainer">
                    <div class="input-group">
                      <span class="input-group-addon"><i class="fa fa-sort-numeric-asc"></i></span>
                      <input class="form-control" type="text" name="invoice_nu" value="{{ $order->invoice_nu }}" readonly>
                    </div>
                  </div>
                </div>

                <div class="form-group">
                  <label class="col-md-3 control-label" for="type">User</label>
                  <div class="col-md-9 inputGroupContainer">
                    <div class="input-group">
                      <span class="input-group-addon"><i class="fa fa-user-o"></i></span>
                      <select class="form-control" id="type" name="user_id">
                        @foreach($users as $user)
                            <option value="{{ $user->id }}">{{ $user->name }}</option>
                        @endforeach
                      </select>
                    </div>
                  </div>
                </div>



                <div class="form-group">
                  <label class="col-md-3 control-label" for="type">Quantity</label>
                  <div class="col-md-9 inputGroupContainer">
                    <div class="input-group">
                      <span class="input-group-addon"><i class="fa fa-file-code-o"></i></span>
                      <select class="form-control" id="type" name="quantity">
                        <option value="">Select Quantity</option>
                        <option value="1">1</option>
                        <option value="2">2</option>
                        <option value="3">3</option>
                        <option value="4">4</option>
                        <option value="5">5</option>
                      </select>
                    </div>
                  </div>
                </div>

                <div class="form-group">
                  <label class="col-md-3 control-label" for="type">Note</label>
                  <div class="col-md-9 inputGroupContainer">
                    <div class="input-group">
                      <span class="input-group-addon"><i class="fa fa-file-word-o"></i></span>
                      <textarea name="name" class="form-control" rows="8">@if(!empty($order->note)){{ $order->note }}@else-@endif</textarea>
                    </div>
                  </div>
                </div>


                <div class="form-group">
                  <label class="col-md-3 control-label" for="type">Status</label>
                  <div class="col-md-9 inputGroupContainer">
                    <div class="input-group">
                      <span class="input-group-addon"><i class="fa fa-file-code-o"></i></span>
                      <select class="form-control" id="type" name="status">
                        <option value="Waiting Payment">Waiting Payment</option>
                        <option value="Paid">Paid</option>
                      </select>
                    </div>
                  </div>
                </div>


                {{ Form::submit('Save', array('class' => 'btn btn-primary mt-20')) }}

                {{ Form::close() }}

Answer 1

you can compare $order->quantity with option value to add selected attribute

<select class="form-control" id="type" name="quantity">
    <option value="">Select Quantity</option>
    <option value="1" {{ $order->quantity == 1 ? 'selected' : '' }}>1</option>
    <option value="2" {{ $order->quantity == 2 ? 'selected' : '' }}>2</option>
    <option value="3" {{ $order->quantity == 3 ? 'selected' : '' }}>3</option>
    <option value="4" {{ $order->quantity == 4 ? 'selected' : '' }}>4</option>
    <option value="5" {{ $order->quantity == 5 ? 'selected' : '' }}>5</option>
</select>

for user compare $user->id with $order->user_id (or something else according your data)

<select class="form-control" id="type" name="user_id">
    @foreach($users as $user)
        <option value="{{ $user->id }}" {{ $user->id == $order->user_id ? 'selected' : '' }}>{{ $user->name }}</option>
    @endforeach
</select>

Answer 2

Check if you have quatity and then add selected attribute to respective option.

        <select class="form-control" id="type" name="quantity">
            @if($order->quantity)
            <option value="{{$order->quantity}}" selected>{{$order->quantity}}</option>
            @else
            <option value="">Select Quantity</option>
            <option value="1">1</option>
            <option value="2">2</option>
            <option value="3">3</option>
            <option value="4">4</option>
            <option value="5">5</option>
            @endif
        </select>