Laravel - Requests - Retrieving Old Input
To retrieve flashed input from the previous request, invoke the old
method on an instance of Illuminate\Http\Request
. The old
method will pull the previously flashed input data from the session:
$username = $request->old('username');
Laravel also provides a global old
helper. If you are displaying old input within a Blade template, it is more convenient to use the old
helper to repopulate the form. If no old input exists for the given field, null
will be returned: