Laravel Get Body request and avoid Query string params

Similarly to how there is access to the query string via $request->query() there is access to the Request payload via $request->post(). These methods are accessing $request->query and $request->request Parameter Bags.

Both methods query() and post() have method signatures that allow you to pass a key to retrieve and a default value as well: $key = null, $default = null

You could do this to get body request parameters without the query string:

$request->except(array_values(array_flip($request->query())));

You could have simply done this with the post() method on the request object:

$request->post();