Undefined variable: request - Laravel 5.1

Question

I have include this on top of my file

use Request;

and also,

use Illuminate\\Http\\Request;

---

When I tried use

$files = $request->file('images');
dd($files);

I kept getting

ErrorException in PortfolioController.php line 113: Undefined variable: request

Why ?

According to the doc of 5.1

https://laravel.com/docs/5.1/requests

use Illuminate\\Http\\Request;

should be enough.

---

Controller

public function update($id) {

    $files = $request->file('images');

    ...

}

Answer 1

Just remove use Request; In action of your controller you should use the request as parameter:

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class PortfolioController extends Controller {

    public function update(Request $request, $id) {
        $files = $request->file('images');

        dd($files, $id);
        // the rest of your code
    }
}