How to allow to retain the selection after form validations

[FrancescoMussi]

I don't know if it is a bug, or is just me that don't know how to do it. I have a form with different fields and also an Image-picker select with 5 images (with multiple selection). When there are some validation error, the message error is displayed, and the values of the other fields are filled with the pre-existing input. In Laravel4 i can do this easily with value={{ Input::old('InputName') }} but it does not work with the ImagePicker selection.

Or better, Input::old('') contains all the input from all the fields and also an array with ([0] => 'single room', [1] => 'double rooms'), that it is exactly my selection in the Image-picker select, but i don't know how to pre-select the images, according to this.

Do you understand? If you have some questions feel free to ask! Thank you for the attention!

[FrancescoMussi]

Hello Rvera. In this topic one guy help me to find a solution using php: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19904984/laravel4-form-with-image-picker Is not elegant but is working. Perhaps you know how can be obtained the same goal in a more straight way? Thank you.

[rvera]

Hi Francesco, are you talking server side validations? If s,o you should generate the select element with the values preselected then call the plugin initialization. Since it's a server side issue there's nothing the plugin could do in this case.

[FrancescoMussi]

Ok, thanks. Anyway with that code from Stack Overflow i obtained what i needed. If the value of Input::old is the same value of the option value than it echo the word 'selected' inside the tag. In this way it pre-select the image. Thanks anyway for the attention!