How to get value from textarea in Laravel 5.2?
<p>I'm currently working on Laravel 5.2 and I'm finding difficult to fetch value from <code>textarea</code> inside controller.</p>

<p>I've tried <code>$request-&gt;input</code> just like we used to fetch values from inputs but it's not working in my case. I have done this far.</p>

<h2>managecategories.blade.php</h2>

<pre><code>&lt;form action="/addcategories" method="post" id="addcategory_form" name="addcategory_form"&gt;
    &lt;div&gt;
        &lt;label&gt;Insert Category&lt;/label&gt;
        &lt;input type="text" name="category" data-validation="required" data-validation="custom" data-validation-regexp="^[a-zA-Z ]{2,30}$"&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;div&gt;
        &lt;label&gt;Insert Category&lt;/label&gt;
        &lt;textarea  name="category" data-validation="required" data-validation="custom" data-validation-regexp="^[a-zA-Z ]{2,30}$" row="5" col="200"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt; 
    &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;input type="submit" value="Add Category" id="category_btn"&gt;
&lt;/form&gt;
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<h2>AdminAjaxController</h2>

<pre><code>public function addcategory(Request $request)
{
    $category=$request-&gt;input('category');
    $category_description=$request-&gt;input('description');
    $insertcategory= DB::insert('insert into categories(category_name,description) values(?, ?)',[$category,$category_description]);
    $fetch_category= DB::select('select category_name,category_id from categories');
    return response()-&gt;json(array('add_category' =&gt; $category),200);
}
</code></pre>