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As the title states. The controller isn't using the changes in the file. It is the old unchanged file that is being used.
It sounds like you may need to clear your application cache. You can do this by running the following command in your terminal:
php artisan cache:clear
If that doesn't work, you may need to clear your config cache as well:
php artisan config:clear
If that still doesn't work, you may need to restart your web server.
php artisan config:clear
php artisan cache:clear
composer dump-autoload
php artisan view:clear
php artisan route:
Please run these command and try again
describe your setup?
Thanks for these suggested clean-up commands. Sadly, trying them was to no avail!
Only thing that is working was restarting my Docker container. Logically, I cannot keep on relying on that to reflect each change on my Laravel back-end.
I am using PhpStorm as my IDE, but even calling the back-end from PostMan has the same results. This leads me to believe it might be caching the code on Docker's side.
I am not 100% sure what is the root problem.
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