Laravel 5.1 nested controller class not found

Question

The Laravel documentation clearly describes how to change your routes if you nest your controllers in folders. It seems REALLY simple, and yet I'm still getting an error. Here's the error:

"Class App\Http\Controllers\Input\InputController does not exist"

^That path looks 100% correct to me. What gives?

File Structure:
-Controllers
--Auth
--Input
---InputController.php

Routes:

Route::get('input', 'Input\InputController@getInput');

InputController:

<?php namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Response;

class InputController extends Controller
{
    public function getInput()
    {
        return response()->view('1_input.input_form');
    }
}

Thanks for any help!

pinkal vansia · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-08 05:30:46Z

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Change Controller namespace from

namespace App\Http\Controllers

to

namespace App\Http\Controllers\Input

answered Jul 8, 2015 at 5:30

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user3023925 Over a year ago

Thanks! In addition, I also added the line "use App\Http\Controllers\Controller"

cmac · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-20 15:57:32Z

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namespace needs to be changed to the directory your controller is in 'App\Http\Input'

You need to pull in Controller with use App\Http\Controllers\Contoller so that you can extend it.

<?php

 namespace App\Http\Controllers\Input;
 use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;  // need Controller to extend  

 use Illuminate\Http\Response;

 class InputController extends Controller
 {
     public function getInput()
     {
       return response()->view('1_input.input_form');
     }
 }

edited Jun 20, 2016 at 15:57

answered Jun 7, 2016 at 17:04

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MaGnetas · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-08 05:16:43Z

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you should try running a couple commands in your base dir from your terminal (shell/prompt):

composer dump-autoload

or if you don't have composer set as executable:

php composer dump-autoload

and then:

php artisan clear-compiled

This way your laravel would prepare everything again "from scratch" and should be able to find the missing controller class.

Basically laravel generates some additional files to boot up faster. If you define a new class it doesn't get included into that "compiled" file. This way your class should be "introduced" to the framework.

answered Jul 8, 2015 at 5:16

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