title: Laravel 5.3 Send Selected Dropdown to Controller
body: <p>I'm using Laravel 5.3 and I have a client registration form, then when a button is clicked, it goes to the corresponding route and then from there to the create method.</p>
  
  <p>I'm having trouble sending my selected dropdown list item to the controller.
  Here is my dropdown list:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div class="form-group"&gt;
      &lt;label for="card_type" class="col-md-4 control-label"&gt;Card&lt;/label&gt;
      &lt;div class="col-md-6"&gt;
          &lt;select class="form-control" name="card_type" id="card_type"&gt;
              &lt;option id="card_id" name="card_id" value="1"&gt;One&lt;/option&gt;
              &lt;option id="card_id" name="card_id" value="2"&gt;Two&lt;/option&gt;
              &lt;option id="card_id" name="card_id" value="3"&gt;Three&lt;/option&gt;
              &lt;option id="card_id" name="card_id" value="4"&gt;Four&lt;/option&gt;
              &lt;option id="card_id" name="card_id" value="5"&gt;Five&lt;/option&gt;
              &lt;option id="card_id" name="card_id" value="6"&gt;Six&lt;/option&gt;
              &lt;option id="card_id" name="card_id" value="7"&gt;Seven&lt;/option&gt;
          &lt;/select&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is what I've tried in the controller to retrieve the selected item:</p>
  
  <p><code>$request-&gt;input('card_id'),</code> and <code>$request-&gt;input('card_type'),</code></p>
  
  <p>But it's returning <code>Null</code>. Any idea why?</p>