How to get value from textarea in Laravel 5.2? - php

Question

I'm currently working on Laravel 5.2 and I'm finding difficult to fetch value from textarea inside controller.
I've tried $request->input just like we used to fetch values from inputs but it's not working in my case. I have done this far.
managecategories.blade.php
<form action="/addcategories" method="post" id="addcategory_form" name="addcategory_form">
<div>
<label>Insert Category</label>
<input type="text" name="category" data-validation="required" data-validation="custom" data-validation-regexp="^[a-zA-Z ]{2,30}$">
</div>
<div>
<label>Insert Category</label>
<textarea name="category" data-validation="required" data-validation="custom" data-validation-regexp="^[a-zA-Z ]{2,30}$" row="5" col="200"></textarea>
</div>
<input type="submit" value="Add Category" id="category_btn">
</form>
AdminAjaxController
public function addcategory(Request $request)
{
$category=$request->input('category');
$category_description=$request->input('description');
$insertcategory= DB::insert('insert into categories(category_name,description) values(?, ?)',[$category,$category_description]);
$fetch_category= DB::select('select category_name,category_id from categories');
return response()->json(array('add_category' => $category),200);
}

Answer 1

Oops Pity me! Both fields are named category. I need to change the name on the textarea to description caught by Aynber.
here is the edited and correct code
<form action="/addcategories" method="post" id="addcategory_form" name="addcategory_form">
<div>
<label>Insert Category</label>
<input type="text" name="category" data-validation="required" data-validation="custom" data-validation-regexp="^[a-zA-Z ]{2,30}$">
</div>
<div>
<label>Insert Category</label>
<textarea name="description" data-validation="required" data-validation="custom" data-validation-regexp="^[a-zA-Z ]{2,30}$" row="5" col="200"></textarea>
</div>
<input type="submit" value="Add Category" id="category_btn">
thanks mate! :)