title: How do I get url parameter in Blade template (Laravel v8)
body: <p>As the title suggests, I am resurrecting an old Laravel project (from v5) and upgrading to v8.</p>
  <p>In my blade template I referred to <code>$request-&gt;q</code> which would get the <code>q=somevalue</code> part of my url, in laravel 8 however this doesn't work.</p>
  <p>I have tried a number of methods found in this <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31324801/lumen-get-url-parameter-in-a-blade-view">SO post</a> but none of them work.</p>