Request

Access the current request with:

$request = request();

Input

$all = request()->all();
$email = request()->input('email');
$page = request()->query('page', 1);
$name = request()->post('name');

JSON and raw body

$data = request()->json();
$email = request()->json('email');
$body = request()->getRawBody();

Files, cookies, headers

$file = request()->file('avatar');
$theme = request()->cookie('theme', 'light');
$accept = request()->header('accept');
$token = request()->bearerToken();

Request metadata

$method = request()->method();
$isPost = request()->isMethod('POST');
$path = request()->path();
$url = request()->fullUrl();
$host = request()->host();
$ip = request()->ip();
$secure = request()->isSecure();
$api = request()->isApi();

Trusted proxy behavior

Bhitti trusts X-Forwarded-* metadata only when REMOTE_ADDR matches an entry in app.trusted_proxies. Exact IPv4/IPv6 addresses and CIDR ranges are supported.

For X-Forwarded-For, Bhitti walks the proxy chain from the right and returns the first valid untrusted address. This keeps request()->ip() useful behind trusted proxy chains without accepting arbitrary forwarded headers from direct clients.