Laravel GET request results with an additional '?' character

Question

I'm getting a weird bug in Laravel while using a GET request. I'm performing a get request via javascript like so:

window.location = "messages/clone?id=" + anchorID + '&name=' + newMessageName;

And I'm using a dd($request) right away inside the controller. The desired behavior would be

Request->request->parameters: array:2[
'id' => 'value'
'name' => 'value'
]

Yet I'm having this output:

Request->request->parameters: array:2[
'?id' => 'value'
'name' => 'value'
]

You'll notice that there's an extra '?' sign right before the 'id'. I'm wondering what's the cause of this?

Thanks in advance, Alex

Answer 1

The parameters that you are dumping are arguments of Route::get() method. '?'`s mean is the parameter is nullable.

If you want to access get parameters you should use:

$request->query('id');