Laravel-5 how to populate select box from database with id value and name value

Laravel provides a Query Builder with lists() function

In your case, you can replace your code

$items = Items::all(['id', 'name']);

with

$items = Items::lists('name', 'id');

Also, you can chain it with other Query Builder as well.

$items = Items::where('active', true)->orderBy('name')->lists('name', 'id');

source: http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/queries#selects

Update for Laravel 5.2

Thank you very much @jarry. As you mentioned, the function for Laravel 5.2 should be

$items = Items::pluck('name', 'id');

or

$items = Items::where('active', true)->orderBy('name')->pluck('name', 'id');

ref: https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/upgrade#upgrade-5.2.0 — look at Deprecations lists