Search code examples
phplaravellaravel-5laravelcollective

How to ensure that value chosen in one dropdownlist will change values of another dropdownlist in Laravel


I was developing Laravel project and what I want to achieve is that when a user picks a certain value in dropdownlist, it should influence other dropdownlists in the view, that is, if user selects Income in the first dropdown then Expense dropdownlist should be disabled or something like that Controller

>  public function create()
>     {
>         $income = Income::pluck('title', 'id');
>         $expense=Expenses::pluck('title', 'id');
>         return view ('IncomeExpense.create', compact('income','expense'));
>     }

View

<div class="form-group">
>      {{Form::label('IncomeExpense', 'Income&Expense')}}
>      {{Form::select('IncomeExpense', array('E' => 'Expense', 'I' => 'Income'),null,['class'=>'form-control'])}}
>     </div>
>     <div class="form-group">
>             {{Form::label('', 'Income')}}           
>             {{Form::select('IncomeId', $income,null,['class'=>'form-control'])}}
>            </div>
>            <div class="form-group">
>                 {{Form::label('', 'Expense')}}           
>                 {{Form::select('ExpenseId', $expense,null,['class'=>'form-control'])}}
>                </div>

Solution

  • I got a solution for you. But you may use select('title', 'id')->get() instade of pluck('title', 'id'). Because pluck is generally used for geting a single column value.

    Now, for your solution, you can use a little bit of JavaScript. For that, you have to give an id to your select tags each. Like

    Income Dropdown

    <select class="form-control select2" id="income" onChange="validate()">
      <option value="selectincome">--- selectincome ---</option>
      @foreach($incomes as $income)
      <option value="{{$income['id']}}">{{$income['title']}}</option>
      @endforeach
    </select>
    

    And Expense Dropdown

    <select class="form-control select2" id="expense" onChange="validate()">
      <option value="selectexpence">--- selectexpence ---</option>
      @foreach($expenses as $expense)
      <option value="{{$expense['id']}}">{{$expense['title']}}</option>
      @endforeach
    </select>
    

    Now, the validate() method

    JavaScript

    function validate(){
        var ddlIncome = document.getElementById("income");
        var ddlExpence = document.getElementById("expense");
    
        var selectedValueIncome = ddlIncome.options[ddlIncome.selectedIndex].value;
        var selectedValueExpence = ddlExpence.options[ddlExpence.selectedIndex].value;
    
        if (selectedValueIncome != "selectincome"){
            document.getElementById("expense").disabled=true;
        }
        else if (selectedValueIncome != "selectexpence"){
            document.getElementById("income").disabled=true;
        }
    }
    

    Hope this helps.