Laravel is there a way to add values to a request array

Question

I come across a situation in Laravel while calling a store() or update() method with Request parameter to add some additional value to the request before calling Eloquent fu

Answer 1

Based on my observations:

$request->request->add(['variable' => 'value']); will (mostly) work in POST, PUT & DELETE methods, because there is value(s) passed, one of those is _token. Like example below.

    @csrf


public function process(Request $request, $id){
    $request->request->add(['id' => $id]);
}

But [below code] won't work because there is no value(s) passed, it doesn't really add.

PROCESS

public function process(Request $request, $id){
    $request->request->add(['id' => $id]);
}

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When using GET method you can either declare Request and assign value(s) on it directly. Like below:

public function process($id){
    $request = new Request(['id' => $id]);
}

Or you can use merge. This is better actually than $request->request->add(['variable' => 'value']); because can initialize, and add request values that will work for all methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)

public function process(Request $request, $id){
    $request->merge(['id' => $id]);
}

Tag: laravel5.8.11