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

You can add parameters to the request from a middleware by doing:

public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
    $request->route()->setParameter('foo', 'bar');
    return $next($request);
}