Laravel -Determining If Input Is Present and has non empty value

Often in your Laravel code you would want to validate if the request has a particular input parameter and also if the parameter has a value in it. Laravel has provided a simple single method on the request object to check both of things

if ($request->filled('name')) {
    //
}

If you would like to determine if a value is present on the request and is not empty, you may use the filled method