Working on edit with nested arrays in result (laravel 5.3) - php

Question

I have a students_record table and i am saving my data in json format there
$students_data = Students::findOrFail($id);
$attributes = DB::table('studentsdata')->where('id', $student_data->id)->select('attributes')->first();
$result = json_decode($student_data->meta_attributes);
echo "<pre>";
print_r($result);
die;
I am getting result as
stdClass Object
(
[name] => test
[status] => Suscess
[country] => Array
(
[0] => Pakistan
[1] => USA
)
[days_time] => months
)
I passed result to view and i an getting first name simply as
<label> Name</label>
<div class="col-md-8">
<div class="input-icon right">
<input type="text" name="name" value="{{isset($result->name) ? $result->name : '' }}" />
</div>
</div>
Its giving my my name in that field fine now
i want to get countries array also in my country field All countries in that array please Help how can i get it here which i have in $result as i show input above against my query
<label> Country </label>
<div class="col-md-8">
<div class="input-icon right">
<select id="country" multiple name="country[]" onchange="
getValue('opens-clicks-region', 'student_tracking', 'region', 'country', this.value, this.id)" disabled="disabled">
<option value=""></option>
</select>
</div>
</div>

Answer 1

You can use a foreach loop to generate <option> tags, if you are using laravel blade its much easier
#foreach ($result->country as $country)
<option value="{{ $country }}"> {{ $country }} </option>
#endforeach
take a look at the blade documentation here : https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/blade#loops

Answer 2

Try some thing like this
<select id="country" multiple name="country[]" onchange="getValue('opens-clicks-region', 'student_tracking', 'region', 'country', this.value, this.id)" disabled="disabled">
#if(!empty($result->country))
#foreach($result->country as $key => $country)
<option value="{{ $key }}">{{ $country }}</option>
#endforeach
#else
<!-- Default case if there is no country -->
<option value="default_key">Default value</option>
#endif
</select>
FYI: Laravel blade has a check for isset input field
You can replace
<input type="text" name="name" value="{{isset($result->name) ? $result->name : '' }}" />
with
<input type="text" name="name" value="{{ $result->name or '' }}" />
Hope it helps!