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Question

I'm trying to add a class to a laravel form. The array is being passed as the third argument, as required, but I get the above error.

{{ Form::input('text', $variable->name, array('class' => 'form-control')) }}

If I get rid of the third argument, the form displays as expected (unstyled). I can't see what I'm doing wrong here - can anyone help?

JohnTaa · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-12 16:02:34Z

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{{ Form::text('text', $variable->name, array('class' => 'form-control')) }}

answered Feb 12, 2014 at 16:02

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Good point, OP shouldn't even be using Form::input(), but Form::text()

up-voted as the best answer. using Form::text is cleaner imo

babbaggeii · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-12 16:02:12Z

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I can see from the api that there is another argument expected:

('text', $name, $value, $options)

answered Feb 12, 2014 at 16:02

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alexrussell · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-12 16:02:17Z

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Your array needs to be the fourth argument to Form::input() - the third is the 'default' value. See Laravel's FormBuilder class:

public function input($type, $name, $value = null, $options = array())

answered Feb 12, 2014 at 16:02

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