Im new to Laravel, and thought i would start out by creating a simple form. By searching around the internet, i've stumbled upon two ways of doing this, and i want to know which way is the right way or "best practice" way of doing things around here.

First of all i have a simple form

<form method="POST" action="/admin/product/save" class="form-horizontal" enctype="multipart/form-data" role="form">....</form>

Then i have a route that calls a method in my product controller

Route::post('/admin/product/save', 'ProductController@add');

And then comes my question. The method i have called "add" can handle the input in two ways. One being this way requring me to declare the "use Input" in top of the controller file:

use Input;
...

public function add()
{
    return Input::all();
    ...
}

And then there is this way

public function add(Request $request)
{
    return $request;
}

But what of these methods are considered the most correct way?