FatalErrorException in HomeController.php line 8: Class 'App\Http\Controllers\Controller' not found

Question

New to laravel and I am trying to setup the user auth. I am using laravel 5.1 so I had to add

"bestmomo/scafold": "dev-master"

to composer.json

also in my composer.json

  "autoload": {
        "classmap": [
            "database"
        ],
        "psr-4": {
            "TestApp\\": "app/"
        }
    },

This lets me bring up the register and login pages at /auth/login , /auth/register.

When I complete register it throws back

FatalErrorException in HomeController.php line 8:
Class 'App\Http\Controllers\Controller' not found

in HomeController.php line 8

I have also named my app using

php artisan app:name TestApp

The user details are stored correctly in the db, then when I navigate anywhere on the site it throws the error because im assuming its recognised the session.

I haven't strayed far from guides and this is a simple setup, not sure why its not working.

I am not sure where the "HomeController" is but the default controller in my dir is Controller.php and contains

namespace TestApp\Http\Controllers;

use TestApp\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\DispatchesJobs;
use Illuminate\Routing\Controller as BaseController;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Validation\ValidatesRequests;

abstract class Controller extends BaseController
{
    use DispatchesJobs, ValidatesRequests;
}

The Dir structure is as follows

Dir structure

can you please update your question with directory structure of controllers folder and code of HomeController, use statements to be specific?` — pinkal vansia
– pinkal vansia, Commented Jul 12, 2015 at 3:45
as you changed your app name your application namespace is now TestApp, so you should replace App to TestApp every where it is referenced, for this error i think in your HomeController change your use App\Http\Controllers\Controller to use TestApp\Http\Controllers\Controller — Nehal Hasnayeen
– Nehal Hasnayeen, Commented Jul 12, 2015 at 6:55

Nehal Hasnayeen · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-12 07:05:37Z

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When you change your app name your application namespace is also changed , so your application namespace is right now TestApp. so in your HomeController file change your use statement , its still using previous namespace , you should use

use TestApp\Http\Controllers\Controller;

answered Jul 12, 2015 at 7:05

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ServerSideSkittles Over a year ago

Seems my namespace is ok, I have that in the Controller.php and AuthController.php.

ServerSideSkittles Over a year ago

This was the issue. I was looking for the error in the controllers directory but didn't realise there was one in vendors folder. Thankyou very much!

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