Easy dropdowns with Eloquent's Lists method
Submitted by dexbarrett - 10 years ago
Pull a ready-to-go array from an Eloquent model to build a dynamic dropdown in your views
// Many of you may know this already, but for those who don't this is really handy for building dropdowns
// Suppose you want to show a categories dropdown whose information is pulled from an Eloquent model
// You can use the query builder's "lists" method (available for Eloquent as any query builder method) which
// returns an associative array you can pass to the Form::select method
$categories = Category::lists('title', 'id');
// note that the parameters you pass to lists correspond to the columns for the value and id, respectively
// in this case, "title" and "id"
// you should pass this data to your view and then build the dropdown inside it
//somewhere in your view
{{ Form::select('category', $categories) }}
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