title: Form data is not submitting into database using laravel 5.4 version
body: <p>I am trying to simply adding my form data but i dont know where i am wrong my html view:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;form action="{{url('add/talent')}}" method="post" role="form"&gt;
  
      {!! csrf_field() !!}
      &lt;div class="row"&gt;
          &lt;div class="col-xs-4 col-sm-4 col-md-4 col-lg-4"&gt;
              &lt;div class="form-group"&gt;
                  &lt;label for=""&gt;First Name&lt;/label&gt;
                  &lt;input type="text" name="first_name" class="form-control" id="" placeholder=""&gt;
              &lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;div class="col-xs-4 col-sm-4 col-md-4 col-lg-4"&gt;
              &lt;div class="form-group"&gt;
                  &lt;label for=""&gt;Middle Name&lt;/label&gt;
                  &lt;input type="text"name="middle_name" class="form-control" id="" placeholder=""&gt;
              &lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;div class="col-xs-4 col-sm-4 col-md-4 col-lg-4"&gt;
              &lt;div class="form-group"&gt;
                  &lt;label for=""&gt;Last Name&lt;/label&gt;
                  &lt;input type="text"name="last_name" class="form-control" id="" placeholder=""&gt;
              &lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  
      &lt;div class="form-group"&gt;
          &lt;label for=""&gt;Email Address&lt;/label&gt;
          &lt;input type="text" name="email_address" id="input" class="form-control" value="" required="required" pattern="" title=""&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  
      &lt;div class="form-group"&gt;
          &lt;label for=""&gt;Profile Summary&lt;/label&gt;
          &lt;textarea name="" id="input" name="profile_summary" class="form-control" rows="3" required="required"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  
      &lt;p class="bold m-b-10"&gt;Open for following type&lt;/p&gt;
  
      &lt;div class="check-box-group"&gt;
          &lt;label class="checkbox-inline"&gt;
              &lt;input type="checkbox" id="inlineCheckbox1" value="option1"&gt; Freelance Project
          &lt;/label&gt;
          &lt;label class="checkbox-inline"&gt;
              &lt;input type="checkbox" id="inlineCheckbox2" value="option2"&gt; Contract Project
          &lt;/label&gt;
          &lt;label class="checkbox-inline"&gt;
              &lt;input type="checkbox" id="inlineCheckbox3" value="option3"&gt; Part Time Hire
          &lt;/label&gt;
          &lt;label class="checkbox-inline"&gt;
              &lt;input type="checkbox" id="inlineCheckbox3" value="option3"&gt; Direct Hire ( Full time )
          &lt;/label&gt;
          &lt;label class="checkbox-inline"&gt;
              &lt;input type="checkbox" id="inlineCheckbox3" value="option3"&gt; SOW
          &lt;/label&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  
      &lt;div class="m-t-20 m-b-20"&gt;
          &lt;a href="add-talent-2" type="submit" class="btn btn-success"&gt;Continue&lt;/a&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  
  &lt;/form&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My controller:</p>
  
  <pre><code>public function addTalent(Request $request)
  {
      $rules = array(
          'first_name'         =&gt; 'required',
          'middle_name'        =&gt; 'required',
          'last_name'          =&gt; 'required',
          'email_address'      =&gt; 'required',
          'profile_summary'    =&gt; 'required',
      );
      $validator = \Illuminate\Support\Facades\Validator::make(Input::all(), $rules);
  
      if ($validator-&gt;fails()) {
          return Redirect::to('add-talent-1')
              -&gt;withErrors($validator);
      } else {
          // store
          $talent = new Talent();
          $talent-&gt;first_name = Input::get('first_name');
          $talent-&gt;middle_name = Input::get('middle_name');
          $talent-&gt;last_name = Input::get('last_name');
          $talent-&gt;email_address = Input::get('email_address');
          $talent-&gt;profile_summary = Input::get('profile_summary');
          $talent-&gt;save();
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and my model:</p>
  
  <p>class Talent extends Model
     {
         protected $table = 'add_talent_1';</p>
  
  <pre><code>   protected $fillable = ['first_name','middle_name','last_name','email_address','profile_summary'];
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>}
  and my routes/web.php</p>
  
  <pre><code>     Route::post('add/talent', 'AddTalent@addTalent');
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>if i test my route under routes/api.php usig postman and hit my post request it successfully add data into database using url: <a href="http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/add/talent" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/add/talent</a></p>
  
  <p>but if i removed api and simply hit request using url <a href="http://127.0.0.1:8000/add/talent" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://127.0.0.1:8000/add/talent</a> it says  TokenMismatchException in VerifyCsrfToken.php line 68
  i dont know where i am doing my wrong why my form is not submitting my data</p>
  
  <p>Any help will be highly appreciated!</p>