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Laravel Collective select to output null when submitted

I am using Laravel Collective for creating my webform.

{!! Form::select('сity_from', ['London', 'Tokyo', 'Moscow'], null, ['placeholder' =>  'Choose city'] )  !!}

which produces the following html:

<select id="сity_from" name="сity_from">
<option selected="selected" disabled="disabled" hidden="hidden" value>Choose city</option>
<option value="London">London</option>
<option value="Tokyo">Tokyo</option>
<option value="Moscow">Moscow</option>

when I choose no city and submit form, and then dd($request->all());in Controller i can see nothing, I mean, there is no $request->all()['city_from'];

I would like to get ['city_from' = null] in this case.

I suppose I have to change 'value' in 

<option selected="selected" disabled="disabled" hidden="hidden" value>Choose city</option>

to value="null"?

Or something else?

I would like to be using Laravel Collective when solving this problem.

Solution

  • I suggest you to not bother with the presence of 'city_from' in your request. You might use $cityForm = $request->input('city_from'); And you will have $cityForm set to the actual value, or to null

    public function store(Request $request)
{
    $cityForm = $request->input('city_from'); //will always be actual value or null
}