Old value in multiple select option in laravel blade

Question

Here is my select option

<select name="recomemded_food[]" value="" style="width:560px;" multiple class="chosen-select" >
<option value="American Black Bear">American Black Bear</option>
<option value="Asiatic Black Bear">Asiatic Black Bear</option>
<option value="Brown Bear">Brown Bear</option>
<option value="Giant Panda">Giant Panda</option>
</select>

And below is my code trying to use the foreach loop to get the array value. but I am receiving the following error:

@foreach (explode(',',old('recomemded_food')) as $recomemded_food) 
{{$recomemded_food}}
@endforeach

Error Message : explode() expects parameter 2 to be string

Just use the Laravel Collective HTML package, then {!! Form::select('recommnded_food[]', $options, null, ['multiple']) !!}. — Martin Bean
– Martin Bean, Commented Feb 24, 2016 at 20:06

Carlos Quinones · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-04 18:00:52Z

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After Playing around a bit I came up with this and it seems to work just splendidly

<select name="options[]" id="options" class="form-control" multiple>
    @foreach($settings->includes->get('optionList') as $option)
        <option value="{{ $option->id }}" {{ (collect(old('options'))->contains($option->id)) ? 'selected':'' }}>{{ $option->name }}</option>
    @endforeach
</select>

I may be 100% wrong in leveraging the collect function but it works fine on many of my tests. I want to say thank you to MPS as it was your example that really made me try this as when there is no data in "recommended_food" you will pull an error because in_array requires an array and will not work well with null so I then came up with the idea of doing something like this.

@if (old("options")){{ (in_array($option->id, old("options")) ? "selected":"") }}@endif

inline but man that looks ugly to me so long story short I am using the following instead

{{ (collect(old('options'))->contains($option->id)) ? 'selected':'' }}

Hope this helps others!!

answered Oct 4, 2016 at 18:00

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El Sordo Over a year ago

This should be the accepted answer. Works for Laravel 7.x - I couldn't find a better way online, yet, if any.

Bariq Dharmawan Over a year ago

Yapp this is better than accepted answer bcz we couldn't put the old value in controller since the old value is come from old request that from view. Work for me too on laravel 7.x

Yeasir Arafat Majumder Over a year ago

Regarding the in_array variant not working on first page load(i.e; when no options are selected yet on the recommended_food select box, the fix is simple: {{ in_array($food, old("recommended_food")) ?? [] ? 'selected' : '') }}

Jilson Thomas · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-24 20:16:18Z

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If you pass the select values from Controller:

$recommended_foods = ["American Black Bear",
                       "Asiatic Black Bear",
                       "Brown Bear",
                       "Giant Panda"];

and In the view:

<select required="required" class="form-control" name="recommended_food">
    @foreach ($recommended_foods as $key => $food)
        <option value="{{ $food}}" {{ (old("recommended_food") == $food ? "selected":"") }}>{{ $food }}</option>
    @endforeach
</select>

answered Feb 24, 2016 at 20:16

Jilson Thomas

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Jackaroo Ng Over a year ago

If the user submit the form, may be user forgot to fill up another form and pop up error message. Does the old selected value will be there ?

Jilson Thomas Over a year ago

Yes it will be there.

Saroj Over a year ago

The question was asked for multiple selection and the answer you gave will work for single selection. Don't know how you got more votes.

Saroj · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-19 09:57:23Z

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The question was asked for multiple chosen.

Assuming you have a field called designation and you need to choose multiple designation for adding 1 record and the field name is forWhom

During Add

You need to add this {{ (collect(old('forWhom'))->contains($key)) ? 'selected':'' }} peace of code to your option tag

which will look like

<select id="forWhom" name="forWhom[]" multiple class="form-control chosen">
    <option value="">--- Select ---</option>
    @foreach ($desgInfo as $key => $value)
        <option value="{{ $key }}" 
           {{ (collect(old('forWhom'))->contains($key)) ? 'selected':'' }}  />
           {{ $value }}
        </option>
    @endforeach
</select>

During Edit

You need to add

{{ (collect(old('forWhom'))->contains($key)) ? 'selected':'' }} 

{{ (in_array($key,$info->forWhom)) ? 'selected' : ''}}

which will look like

<select id="forWhom" name="forWhom[]" multiple class="form-control chosen">
        <option value="">--- Select ---</option>
        @foreach ($desgInfo as $key => $value)
            <option value="{{ $key }}" 
               {{ (collect(old('forWhom'))->contains($key)) ? 'selected':'' }} 
               {{ (in_array($key,$info->forWhom)) ? 'selected' : ''}}  
               />
               {{ $value }}
            </option>
        @endforeach
    </select>

Select all selected id's in a multiselect dropdown in laravel 5.4 with harvest chosen

Thanks

edited Jun 19, 2017 at 9:57

answered Jun 7, 2017 at 5:43

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aspirinemaga Over a year ago

this worked for me: {{ (collect(old('forWhom'))->contains($key)) ? 'selected':'' }}

Blues Clues Over a year ago

This should be the right answer since it is for multiple select.

MPS · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-18 06:14:45Z

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For me Jilson Thomas's answer did not work for multiple select so I changed it to:

{{ in_array($food, old("recommended_food")) ? "selected":"") }}

answered Mar 18, 2016 at 6:14

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Yeasir Arafat Majumder Over a year ago

This does not work on first page load(i.e; when no options are selected yet on the recommended_food select box. This works: {{ in_array($food, old("recommended_food")) ?? [] ? 'selected' : '') }}

Rashed Hasan · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-10 05:21:48Z

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I think the best answer to this question is this below

@if(count($categories) > 0)
  @foreach($categories as $category)
      <option value="{{ $category->id }}" {{ (old('lawyer_fields') == null ? '' : in_array($category->id ,old('lawyer_fields')) ? "selected":"") }}>
                                            {{ $category->name }}
      </option>
  @endforeach
  @else
       <option disabled>بدون انتخاب</option>
@endif

edited Feb 10, 2020 at 5:21

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answered Nov 9, 2019 at 19:10

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Daljit Singh · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-24 12:59:57Z

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Best way:

<label for="name">Tags</label>
    <select name="tags[]" class="form-control select-tag" multiple>
      @foreach($tags as $tag)
        <option value="{{$tag->id}}" {{in_array($tag->id, old("tags") ?: []) ? "selected": ""}}>{{$tag->name}}</option>
      @endforeach
    </select>

answered Jan 24, 2021 at 12:59

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Leonardo Hessel · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-10 20:57:47Z

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This is the way I do, very dynamic.

<select id="gender" name="gender">
    <option>Select</option>
        <option value="M">Male</option>
        <option value="F">Female</option>
</select>

<script>
    var currentGender = null;
    for(var i=0; i!=document.querySelector("#gender").querySelectorAll("option").length; i++)
    {
        currentGender = document.querySelector("#gender").querySelectorAll("option")[i];
        if(currentGender.getAttribute("value") == "{{ old("gender") }}")
        {
            currentGender.setAttribute("selected","selected");
        }
    }
</script>

answered May 10, 2017 at 20:57

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Zohaib · Accepted Answer · 2024-05-11 21:04:36Z

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For edit form where on first view you will need to show previous selected options from database

<select name="roles[]" multiple="multiple">
    @foreach($rolesas $key => $value)
        <option value="{{ $key }}"
            @selected(in_array($key, old('roles', $selectedRoles ?? [])))
                >{{ $value }}</option>
    @endforeach
</select>

answered May 11, 2024 at 21:04

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blamb · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-26 22:20:25Z

I was parsing JSON data, and was faced with repopulating the multi-select as an array, and only wanted one table, and wasn't using keys since this array was being passed back from the show method in the controller, so had to supply the values directly on the template, in my case as a crud resource on the edit.blade.php template (also on the create template).

This worked for me, and was the cleanest I could get it on the view.

<select id="recommended_food"   multiple="multiple" size=3 style='height: 100%;' name="recommended_food[]">
    @if ($food->recomemded_food)
      {{ ($val = 'Fries')
        && $chosen = in_array($val, $food->recommended_food)
        ? 'selected':null}}
      <option value="{{$val}}" {{$chosen}}>{{$val}}</option>
      {{ ($val = 'Hot Dogs')
        && $chosen = in_array($val, $food->recommended_food)
        ? 'selected':null}}
      <option value="{{$val}}" {{$chosen}}>{{$val}}</option>
      {{ ($val = 'Hamburgers')
        && $chosen = in_array($val, $food->recommended_food)
        ? 'selected':null}}
      <option value="{{$val}}" {{$chosen}}>{{$val}}</option>
    @endif
  </select>

Aimé Angelo Kezimana · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-30 19:59:04Z

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This works fine for me, using collect(old('roles'))->contains($ role)

Ex:

<div class="form-group">
  <label for="roles" class="form-control-label">Roles</label>
  <select name="roles[]" id="roles" data-placeholder="Choose role..." multiple class="standardSelect">
    <option value="" label="default"></option>
    @foreach($roles as $role)
      <option value="{{ $role }}" {!! (collect(old('roles'))->contains($role)) ? 'selected="selected"' : '' !!}>{{ $role }}</option>
    @endforeach
  </select>
 </div>

answered Aug 30, 2020 at 19:59

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Go3shom · Accepted Answer · 2023-01-06 05:32:03Z

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According to laravel 9 Documentation

You can now use @selected directive like so:

  <select name="version">
    @foreach ($product->versions as $version)
        <option value="{{ $version }}" @selected(old('version') == $version)>
            {{ $version }}
        </option>
    @endforeach
</select>

answered Jan 6, 2023 at 5:32

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