Can not pass request parameter to controller from route in laravel 5

Question

I have

public function checkCookie(Request $request) {

// do something 
}

in my controller and I am trying to call it from routes.php with

Route::get('mypage',function(){
    $a=new App\Http\Controllers\indexController;
    $a->checkCookie();               
});

but I can't pass request parameter. What am I missing?

Answer 1

Here's what this should look like:

routes.php

<?php
Route::get('/mypage', 'IndexController@checkCookie');

Controllers/IndexController.php

<?php 

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Request;

class IndexController extends Controller {

    public function checkCookie()
    {
        $data = Request::only('myvariable');
        dd($data);
    }
}

Answer 2

thanks for helps!!! finally i could pass param with

Route::get('mypage',function(Request $request){
    $a=new App\Http\Controllers\indexController;
    $b=$a->checkCookie($request);
    if(!empty($b)){
        return view('mypage');
    }
});

and did these configs in my .env

DB_HOST=localhost
DB_DATABASE='db_name'
DB_USERNAME='root'
DB_PASSWORD=''
DB_PORT=3306