Laravel 5.2 : Getting form fields in controller method - php

Question

I have the following form :
{!! Form::open(['action' => 'PublicController#showProfile','method' => 'post', 'class' => 'form-horizontal']) !!}
{!! Form::token(); !!}
<input type="text" class="form-control" name="from">
<span class="input-group-addon"> to </span>
<input type="text" class="form-control" name="to">
<button type="submit" class="btn blue">Query</button>
{!! Form::close() !!}
In my controller I am getting the form fields like this :
public function showProfile(Request $request)
{
$to = $request->get("to");
$from = $request->get("from");
$giftReceived = App\GiftSent::whereBetween('created_at', [$from, $to])->get();
dd($from);
return view('user.profile',compact('giftReceived'));
}
In the above code dd($from) comes null
Am i missing something ?

Answer 1

First of all, as stated in your comments, you are using Route::get and submitting the form as POST which is obviously wrong. So, you should probably get MethodNotAllowedException
So, kindly change the line to
{!! Form::open(['action' => 'PublicController#showProfile','method' => 'GET', 'class' => 'form-horizontal']) !!}
In any case, instead of using Laravel's Request Class, prefer using the helper function request()
So, basically, it should be like
public function showProfile() {
$from = request()->get('from');
$to = request()->get('to');
dd($from, $to);
}
Everything should work fine now :)

Answer 2

If your post data is sending to controller, you can access the values like:
// Get all request data via method POST.
$requestData = Request::instance()->request->all();
dd($requestData['from']);
dd($requestData['to']);