Laravel-5 how to populate select box from database with id value and name value

Question

I want to create a select box like the one below using illuminate\html :

<select>
    <option value="$item->id">$item->name</option>
    <option value="$item->id">$item->name</option>
</select>

In my controller I tried this:

public function create()
{
    $items = Items::all(['id', 'name']);

    return view('prices.create', compact('id', 'items'));
}

And in my view this:

<div class="form-group">
    {!! Form::Label('item', 'Item:') !!}
    {!! Form::select('item_id', $items, null, ['class' => 'form-control']) !!}
</div>

The issue is that instead of $item->name is displaying all the info of the entity.

Answer 1

Laravel provides a Query Builder with lists() function

In your case, you can replace your code

$items = Items::all(['id', 'name']);

with

$items = Items::lists('name', 'id');

Also, you can chain it with other Query Builder as well.

$items = Items::where('active', true)->orderBy('name')->lists('name', 'id');

source: http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/queries#selects

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Update for Laravel 5.2

Thank you very much @jarry. As you mentioned, the function for Laravel 5.2 should be

$items = Items::pluck('name', 'id');

or

$items = Items::where('active', true)->orderBy('name')->pluck('name', 'id');

ref: https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/upgrade#upgrade-5.2.0 -- look at Deprecations lists

Answer 2

Laravel >= 5.3 method lists() is deprecated use pluck()

$items = Items::pluck('name', 'id');

{!! Form::select('items', $items, null, ['class' => 'some_css_class']) !!}

This will give you a select box with same select options as id numbers in DB

for example if you have this in your DB table:

id name
1  item1
2  item2
3  item3
4  item4

in select box it will be like this

<select>
<option value="1">item1</option>
<option value="2">item2</option>
<option value="3">item3</option>
<option value="4">item4</option>
</select>

I found out that pluck now returns a collection, and you need to add ->toArray() at the end of pluck...so like this: pluck('name', 'id')->toArray();

Answer 3

Just change your controller to the following:

public function create()
{
    $items = Subject::all(['id', 'name']);
    return View::make('your view', compact('items));
}

And your view to:

<div class="form-group">
  {!! Form::Label('item', 'Item:') !!}
  <select class="form-control" name="item_id">
    @foreach($items as $item)
      <option value="{{$item->id}}">{{$item->name}}</option>
    @endforeach
  </select>
</div>

Hope this will solve your problem

Answer 4

Controller

 $campaignStatus = Campaign::lists('status', 'id');

compact('campaignStatus') will result in [id=>status]; //example [1 => 'pending']

return view('management.campaign.index', compact('campaignStatus'));

View

{!! Form::select('status', $campaignStatus, array('class' => 'form-control')) !!}

Answer 5

In your controller, add,

public function create()
{
    $items = array(
        'itemlist' =>  DB::table('itemtable')->get()
      );

    return view('prices.create', $items);
}

And in your view, use

<select name="categories" id="categories" class="form-control">
  @foreach($itemlist as $item)
    <option value="{{ $item->id }}">{{ $item->name }}</option>
  @endforeach
</select>

In select box, it will be like this,

<select>
 <option value="1">item1</option>
 <option value="2">item2</option>
 <option value="3">item3</option>
 ...
</select>