Class not found after auto loading in Laravel

Question

I am struggling with PHP Namespaces and Auto loading in Laravel 5.4. I actually decided to put the models that I need to use in a definite and named folder as app/Models:

php artisan make:model Models/Customer

I have set Customer model's namespace to namespace Models;
Then, I created a route as follows:

Route::get('customer', function () {
    $customer = \App\Models\Cutomer::find(1);
    echo $customer;
});

To do auto loading work I opened the composer.json file located in the very root folder of the Laravel project and made the autoload to be as follows:

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

After all of this I checked if my composer is an update version and ran dump-autoload:

composer self-update
composer dump-autoload -o

There is also worth of notice the contents of vendor/composer/autoload_classmap.php:

'App\\Models\\Customer' => $baseDir . '/app/Models/Customer.php',
'App\\Models\\Test\\Test' => $baseDir . '/app/Models/Test.php',

My problem is that whenever I execute the url: http://127.0.0.1:8000/customer I will encounter the following error output:

(1/1) FatalThrowableError
Class 'App\Models\Cutomer' not found

Would you please help me understand where of my work has been incorrect, and how to fix it? Thank you very much in advance.

You have a typo. The model is Customer, but you're trying to use Cutomer — Alexey Mezenin
– Alexey Mezenin, Commented Jul 13, 2017 at 15:43

Rwd · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-13 15:28:27Z

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The namespace in the model should be namespace App\Model; (hence why you call the class as \App\Models\Cutomer)

When you use php artisan make:model Models/Customer it should have set the namespace correctly then.

Also, you don't need to edit your composer.json to do this. Remove the additions you've made to your composer.json file for the autoloading and then run composer dumpautoload from the command line.

Hope this helps!

answered Jul 13, 2017 at 15:28

Rwd

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Tower Over a year ago

Thank you all three of you helping me solve my problem. I should not only have paid attention to namespacing but I also had a typo. You all saved my day. Thank you very much again.

Rwd Over a year ago

Glad I could help! :)

David Barker · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-13 15:31:45Z

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First, you have an error in your PSR-4 setup.

"App\\Models\\": "App/Models"

This does not map to a valid directory. Secondly, and more importantly, there is no need to autoload a nested namespace of one that is already declared. By autoloading App you will already autoload any nested namespaces as long as they conform to PSR-4 standards i.e namespace as directory name and filename as class name.

Composer setup only needs to be the following:

"psr-4": {
    "App\\": "app/"
}

answered Jul 13, 2017 at 15:31

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