Laravel form with placeholder, class and input::old - forms

Question

I am trying to get used to work with Laravel's blade.
I would like to create a text input called company.
The input field needs to have an id and a class.
I also want to show a placeholder if there is no data in the database, or the data stored if already exists.
Finally, I would like to keep the introduced input in case of errors.
I would like to use something similar at this:
{{ Form::text(
'company',
isset($user->company)?$user->company:array('placeholder'=>'Your company'),
array('class' => 'field required', 'id' => 'company'),
Input::old('company')
) }}
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

The easy way, using form model binding:
{{ Form::model($user, [ ...options...]) }}
{{ Form::text(
'company', // refers to $user->company
null, // auto populated with old input in case of error OR $user->company
array('class' => 'field required', 'id' => 'company',
'placeholder' => 'Your company') // placeholder is html attribute, don't use model data here
) }}
And if you don't want form model binding, this is all you need:
{{ Form::text(
'company',
$user->company, // auto populated with old input in case of error
array('class' => 'field required', 'id' => 'company',
'placeholder' => 'Your company')
) }}

Answer 2

Laravel will handle re-populating inputs for you, so long as the key in the POST data is the same as your input’s name attribute.
With Form::text(), the first parameter is the field name, the second parameter is the default value you want, and the third parameter is an array of HTML attributes you want set. So, you would have:
{{ Form::text('company', null, array(
'class' => '',
'id' => '',
'placeholder' => '',
)) }}
Obviously replaced the class, id, and placeholder values with your desired values.

Answer 3

Found it!
It works fine for me if I do this:
{{ Form::text(
'company',
Input::old( 'company', $user -> company ) ,
array( 'class' => 'field required', 'id' => 'company', 'placeholder' => 'Your company' )
) }}