Create a Laravel Request object on the fly

I'm handling data in one controller and want to pass it further into another controller to avoid duplicate code.

Is there a way to set up a Request object that is needed in the other controller's store-method? I've traced down the Request inheritance and came to Symfony's Request object which has a request property that is in fact a ParameterBag that holds a method add to add parameters with values to it.

I've tried the following but I'm getting null as result:

$myRequest = new Request();
$myRequest->request->add(['foo' => 'bar']);
var_dump($myRequest->foo);

I'm on Laravel 5.1 for this project.

via Chebli Mohamed