Requests

Getting input

The primary way of getting input would be from injecting the Illuminate\Http\Request into your controller, after that there are numerous ways of accessing the data, 4 of which are in the example below.

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class UserController extends Controller
{
    public function store(Request $request)
    {
        // Returns the username value
        $name = $request->input('username');

        // Returns the username value
        $name = $request->username;

        // Returns the username value
        $name = request('username');

        // Returns the username value again
        $name = request()->username;

    }

}

When using the input function it is also possible to add a default value for when the request input is not available

$name = $request->input('username', 'John Doe');