Laravel 5 can't capture form input - forms

Question

EDIT I am not using resource controller but I believe my route is correct
I have a form on it called recordings I have the form like:
<form class="form-horizontal" role="form" method="POST" action="{{ url('/recordings/create') }}" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="hidden" name="_token" value="{{ csrf_token() }}">
<div class="form-group">
<label class="col-md-4 control-label">Client Name</label>
<div class="col-md-6">
{!! Form::select('ClientName', $client_options, '', array('class' => 'form-control')) !!}
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label class="col-md-4 control-label">File</label>
<div class="col-md-6">
<input type="file" class="form-control" name="FileUpload">
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-md-6 col-md-offset-4">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">
Submit
</button>
</div>
</div>
</form>
Then in my RecordingsController
public function store()
{
var_dump(Input::file('FileUpload'));
var_dump(Input::get('ClientName')) ;
}
My route:
Route::get('recordings/create', 'RecordingsController#create');
Route::post('recordings/create', 'RecordingsController#store');
Why is it the var_dump is null? I have a dropdown which has values in it and I already selected one. The other one is file input filed which I also selected already a file.

Answer 1

Try:
public function store(Request $request) {
$ClientName = $request->ClientName:
if ($this->request->hasFile('FileUpload'))
{
$files = $this->request->file('FileUpload');
....
Or simple use
dd($request);
Always a good idea here is to use Firebug - to check out which values are submitted to your script.

Answer 2

Works now. Problem is I am sending huge data in my post. So I did is changed the post_max_size in my php.ini. Weird though I am not getting error regarding that.