As developers, we often need to extract only a few items from a validated request. Instead of manually unsetting or filtering, Laravel provides a clean and efficient way to do this using the safe() method. Hereโs how:
// Extract only specific fields
$validated = $request->safe()->only(['name', 'email']);
// Extract all fields except specified ones
$validated = $request->safe()->except(['name', 'email']);
// Extract all validated input
$validated = $request->safe()->all();
Using safe() makes your code cleaner and ensures you're only working with validated data, enhancing both security and code clarity.
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If you look at the documentation you will see that the part that make the
safefunction work is a FormRequest class that is type hinted.So your example with the Request typehinting will not validate any input.