title: Validate select form in laravel
body: <p>I have this html on my contact form:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div class="form-group"&gt;
       &lt;label class="col-md-2 control-label" for="type"&gt;Type of website?&lt;/label&gt;
       &lt;div class="col-md-10 inputGroupContainer"&gt;
            &lt;div class="input-group"&gt;
                 &lt;span class="input-group-addon"&gt;&lt;i class="fa fa-file-code-o"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
                 &lt;select class="form-control" id="type"&gt;
                    &lt;option&gt;Business&lt;/option&gt;
                    &lt;option&gt;Company&lt;/option&gt;
                    &lt;option&gt;Personal&lt;/option&gt;
                    &lt;option&gt;Online Shopping&lt;/option&gt;
                    &lt;option&gt;Other&lt;/option&gt;
                 &lt;/select&gt;
            &lt;/div&gt;
       &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I validate and pass data of this field in email?</p>
  
  <p>Currently I have this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!-- Text input--&gt;
  &lt;div class="form-group"&gt;
        &lt;label class="col-md-2 control-label"&gt;Type&lt;/label&gt;
        &lt;div class="col-md-10 inputGroupContainer"&gt;
             &lt;div class="input-group"&gt;
                 &lt;span class="input-group-addon"&gt;&lt;i class="fa fa-file-code-o"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
                 &lt;input  name="type" placeholder="eg. Business, Company, Personal, Online Shopping, etc." class="form-control"  type="text"&gt;
             &lt;/div&gt;
        &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And I validate and pass it like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$data = array(
          'type' =&gt; $request-&gt;type,
        );
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but that's input field what I want is my first sample (select box), so I'm not sure how to do it!</p>
  
  <p>thanks.</p>