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

The best one I have used and researched on it is $request->merge([]) (Check My Piece of Code):

    public function index(Request $request) {
        not_permissions_redirect(have_premission(2));
        $filters = (!empty($request->all())) ? true : false;
        $request->merge(['type' => 'admin']);
        $users = $this->service->getAllUsers($request->all());
        $roles = $this->roles->getAllAdminRoles();
        return view('users.list', compact(['users', 'roles', 'filters']));
    }

Check line # 3 inside the index function.