title: Form input old value in laravel 5.6
body: <p>I have a search form input where i want to display the searchterm value in the searchbox after searching on the results page. </p>
  
  <p>I tried the following which is not working</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;input type="text" name="search" value="{{ old('search') }}" placeholder="Search help articles" class="form-control form-control-gray col-md-10"&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What is incorrect in the value="" </p>