title: Retrieving selected value from dropdown laravel
body: <p>I am having trouble with something really simple. I am trying to get the selected value of a dropdownlist.</p>
  
  <p>DD list </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select name="category_id" class="form-control selectpicker" &gt;
              &lt;option value=" " &gt;Kategori Seçiniz&lt;/option&gt;
              &lt;option values="1"&gt;first category&lt;/option&gt;
              &lt;option values="2"&gt;second&lt;/option&gt;
              &lt;option values="3"&gt;third &lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I can get the value with the code below. I don`t see why </p>
  
  <pre><code>Input::get('category_id');
  </code></pre>