Laravel - data stored in a variable but becomes null in database - laravel

Question

I have a problem with my function that saves data into database,
Basically user puts name into a form and when I do console.log I do get that value, I then call my function in controller and everything looks sucessfully - no errors but when I check in mysql name = NULL, why?
My form:
<div class="modal fade" id="myModalHorizontal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog"
aria-labelledby="myModalLabel" aria-hidden="true">
<div class="modal-dialog">
<div class="modal-content">
<!-- Modal Header -->
<div class="modal-header">
<button type="button" class="close"
data-dismiss="modal">
<span aria-hidden="true">×</span>
<span class="sr-only">Close</span>
</button>
<h4 class="modal-title" id="myModalLabel">
Website Name
</h4>
</div>
<div class="modal-body">
<form action="{{ action('BuilderController#postDB') }}"
class="form-horizontal" role="form" method = "POST">
<div class="form-group">
<input type="hidden" name="_token" value="{{ csrf_token() }}">
<input type="hidden" id="code" name="newCode" value="">
<label class="col-sm-2 control-label"
for="website_name">Name</label>
<div class="col-sm-10">
<input type="text" class="form-control"
id="website_name" placeholder="Website Name"/>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<!-- Modal Footer -->
<div class="modal-footer">
<button type="button" class="form-control margin btn btn-danger"
data-dismiss="modal">
Close
</button>
<button onClick=" updateDatabase(this);" type="submit" class="form-control margin btn btn-success" id="getRequest changes">
Save Website
</button>
</div>
</div>
</div></form>
</div>
JS:
var web_name;
function updateDatabase()
{
code2 = document.getElementById("content-link2").innerHTML;
var newCode = document.getElementById('code').value = code2;
web_name = ($('#website_name').val());
console.log(web_name);
console.log(newCode);
Controller:
public function postDB(Request $request) {
$newName = $request->input('web_name');
$newLat = $request->input('newCode');
$websites = new Website();
$websites->name = $newName;
$websites->html = $newLat;
$websites->save();
// Now we go to our other function
return $this->website($newName);
}
public function website($newName)
{
// Return our "website" object
$html = Website::where('name', $newName)->first();
// Pass the contents of the "html" property to the view
return view('layouts/website', [
'html' => $html->html
]);
}

Answer 1

You need to add name attribute to input element:
<input name="website_name" ...