How to get POST only data in Laravel 6

Hello, $request->post(), by calling post() it returns only data from body, ignoring those from query string

public function store(Request $request)
{
    dd($request->post());
}

Ok, just to clarify, I am talking about a GET route.

It does indeed seem as if in a POST route the post() method works as expected, but in a GET route the post() method returns the query string whereas it should in fact return an empty array/string or NULL.

I guess what I could do is call the query() method to see if post() is in fact returning the query string (for various reasons I can't use $request->method() to see if actual form data has been posted), but surely there is a better way?

However I want it to ONLY look at POST data, and to ignore the query string in both cases.

I am talking about a GET route.

I can't understand, you can't look at the POST data in GET request, all I can say is that if you treat a GET and a POST request with the same method, then you need that if statement to check if it's a post request.

As you say, a GET request has no POST data so surely the "post()" method should return nothing.

Anyway, as you guessed, I have a trait function that has to work with both GET and POST requests, but cannot rely on $request->method() to determine which it is.

Either way, it appears as if that if statement is needed, so that is what I will do ...

Thanks :-)

Your code should be

$data = $request->request->get('form');
var_dump($data['name']);

@martinw12

if ($request->isMethod('post')) {
    $thing = $request->input('thing');
}