Setting selected option in laravel form

Answer 1

To echo some other answers here, the code I just used with 5.6 is this

{{ Form::select('status', ['Draft' => 'Draft', 'Sent' => 'Sent', 'Paid' => 'Paid'], $model->status, ['id' => 'status']) }}

In order to be able to use the Form Helper from LaravelCollective I took a look at https://laravelcollective.com/docs/master/html#drop-down-lists

I also had to composer require the dependency also so that I could use it in my projects

composer require "laravelcollective/html":"^5"

Lastly I altered my config/app.php and added the following in the $aliases array

    'Form' => Collective\Html\FormFacade::class,

https://laravelcollective.com/docs/master/html should be consulted if any of the above ceases to work.