Laravel: Returning a view from a controller

Question

I'm trying to learn how to use Laravel 5, but I've bumped into a problem. I've created the following code so far:

under app/HTTP/routes.php:

<?php

Route::get('/', 'MyController@home');

Created my own MyController.php file under app\Http\Controllers and added the following code to the controller:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Routing\Controller as BaseController;

class MyController extends BaseController
{
    public function home()
    {
        $name = "John Doe";
        return View::make("index")->with("name", $name);
    }
}

When I run the app I get the error:

FatalErrorException in MyController.php line 12:
Class 'App\Http\Controllers\View' not found

What am I doing wrong?

pinkal vansia · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-24 14:35:18Z

13

Change

return View::make("index")->with("name", $name);

To

return \View::make("index")->with("name", $name);

or Even better

return view("index",compact('name'));

UPDATE

View is a Facade, a wrapper class, and view() is a helper function that retrives a view instance.

edited Jul 24, 2015 at 14:35

answered Jul 24, 2015 at 14:27

pinkal vansia

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n0t_a_nUmb3R Over a year ago

Works fine. I'll accept your answer after 9 minutes (not allowed to accept it right now). Just another quick question, what's the difference between view and View::make

Wader Over a year ago

View::make() is from Laravel 4, this changed in 5 to the view() helper function as the use of facades is discouraged, although you can still use them for now. I'd expect they will become deprecated at some point if they're not already.

pinkal vansia Over a year ago

@n0t_a_nUmb3R- I have updated my answer with relevant links.

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