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eantz's avatar
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$request->all() is not empty, but $request->get('something') is null

Hi, I'm using L5.7 Currently I have strange behavior in form request.

Usually it works to get form request data by calling $request->get('something')but currently when I call it, it returns null value

However when I call $request->all(), the form values are exists.

Any idea about this?

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eantz's avatar
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$request->input('something') also return null value

And one more weird thing I found is $request->input('something') or $request->get('something') will work on query string, but not for form input

eantz's avatar
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My bad, It's nothing to do with Laravel

I failed to read form request name carefully.

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