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 "Please select one option".

Answer 1

I found that 'default'=>'Please select' doesn't work with the HTML5 required attribute. This does work:

$listOfValues = [1 => 'Choice 1']; Form::select('fieldname',[null=>'Please Select'] + $listOfValues); 

If you don't like modern PHP syntax,

$listOfValues = array(1 => 'Choice 1'); $listOfValues[null] = 'Please Select'; Form::select('fieldname', $listOfValues); 

But the point is to have a label for the null value.