Laravel-5 how to populate select box from database with id value and name value

Answer 1

Sorry for the late reply

Obviously lists method has been deprecated in Laravel, but you can use the pluck method.

For Eg:

Laravel 5.7

public function create()
{
    $countries =  Country::pluck('country_name','id');
    return View::make('test.new')->with('countries', $countries);
}

and in the view if you are FORM components just pass as

{{  Form::select('testname',$countries,null,['class' => 'required form-control select2','id'=>'testname']) }}

if will generate the dropdown

but i have a situation to show that select country as the first option and as null value

<option value="" selected="selected">--Select  Country--</option>

so I have referred to

https://stackoverflow.com/a/51324218/8487424

and fixed this, but in later times if I want to change this I hate being changing it in the view

So have created the helper function based on https://stackoverflow.com/a/51324218/8487424 and placed in the Country Model

public static  function toDropDown($tableName='',$nameField='',$idField='',$defaultNullText='--Select--')
{
    if ($idField == null)
    {
        $idField="id";
    }

    $listFiledValues = DB::table($tableName)->select($idField,$nameField)->get();

            $selectArray=[];
            $selectArray[null] = $defaultNullText;
            foreach ($listFiledValues as $listFiledValue) 
            {
                $selectArray[$listFiledValue->$idField] = $listFiledValue->$nameField;
            }
            return $selectArray;
        }

and in controller

public function create()
    {
      $countries = Country::toDropDown('countries','name','id','--Select  Country--');
      return View::make('test.new')->with('countries', $countries);
    }

and finally in the view

 {{  Form::select('testname',$countries,null,['class' => 'required form-control select2','id'=>'testname']) }}

and the result is as expected, but I strongly recommend to use pluck() method