Laravel droplist from the database

guys.

I am newbie in laravel and I like to have a droplist with the values from the database table. How can I do it, actually I have an error: "Undefined variable: claims" (I think data is not passing) - I think it's because of few reasons: because of View function or different reasons.

Example of a droplist I like to have(taking the values from the db):

Definitions of my values and variables:

mainpage - my html page

Drop - my table with the name "claim_type" in the db

$claims - variable with info from the table "claim_type" from the database

Here is my Controller with the name MainController:

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Main;
use App\Drop;

class MainController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        $claims = Drop::all();
        return View::make('mainpage')->with('users', $claims);
    }

And my html:

 <p> Claim type:
        <select>
            <option value="$claims->id"></option>
            <option value="$claims->id"></option>
            <option value="$claims->id"></option>
            <option value="$claims->id"></option>
        </select>

 </p>

My route:

Route::post('/mainpage', 'MainController@index');

Actually, saw a lot of articles, please explain me how it works.

Thank you!

I hope this post will help also for the different coders

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