title: Laravel database select dropdown with placeholder
body: <p>Hi I'm populating a select dropdown with clients that exist in my database, however I want a placeholder first e.g. <code>Please select a Client</code>. Does anyone know the syntax? </p>
  
  <p>This is what I have so far:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@if(count($client_options)&gt;0)
  
      {{ Form::select('client', $client_options , Input::old('client'), array('placeholder' =&gt; 'Please select a client', 'id' =&gt; 'select_client', 'class' =&gt; 'chosen-select select', 'tabindex' =&gt; '2', )) }}
  
  @endif 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The placeholder attribute but that doesn't work, does anyone know how? Thanks in advance </p>