Level 18
Have you tried php artisan route:clear after making the changes?
Also, composer dump-autoload is sometimes needed.
Dec 6, 2020
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Level 4
Route not working Target class does not exist
Hello All,
I just have a small question. Laravel is behaving strange (in my opinion :-) ). And I don't now why.
I was struggling for more than a day, just to get a route working. I know Laravel change it logic but still I don't understand.
My question is: Why is /admins and /users working, and if I change these into /admin or /user is give me the "Target class [DemoController] does not exist"
It is just in fresh install of laravel, and these the only routes I have except the default welcome one.
I just want to understand, why the plural is working and the singular not.
Kr esorone
Route::get('/admins', 'App\Http\Controllers\DemoController@adminDemo'); => WORKS
Route::get('/admin', 'App\Http\Controllers\DemoController@adminDemo'); => NOT WORKING
Route::get('/users', 'App\Http\Controllers\DemoController@userDemo'); => WORKS
Route::get('/user', 'App\Http\Controllers\DemoController@userDemo'); => NOT WORKING
Level 4
Hey GeordieJackson,
Yes I did, and I also did php artisan optimize, but still the same behaviour.
Kr
Level 18
I can't reproduce the behaviour. It works fine for me - Laravel 8 fresh install.
Do you have any namespace set in your RouteServiceProvider?
Have you tried the new tuple syntax?
e.g.
Route::get('/admin', [DemoController::class, 'adminDemo']);
Route::get('/admins', [DemoController::class, 'adminDemo']);
Route::get('/users', [DemoController::class, 'adminDemo']);
Route::get('/user',[DemoController::class, 'adminDemo']);
Remembering to import DemoController.
Level 4
Hello Geordie, I did.. And the DemoContoller works with /admins and not with /admin. So the imput should be okay... What I noticed thought is that in my vendor directory I have multiple folders with the same name and a (2) behind it. I got the impression that something went wrong during the installation.
Thanks for looking into this topic
Level 4
I just tried one more time with you solution and it worked.
In the end I used:
Route::get('/viewer', [DemoController::class, 'getViewerPage']);
Route::get('/manager', [DemoController::class, 'getManagerPage']);
Route::get('/user', [DemoController::class, 'getUserPage']);
Route::get('/admin', [DemoController::class, 'getAdminPage']);
Thanks. Now I got the solution, but I would really love to now what is missed :-)
Level 70
@esorone What do you mean by NOT WORKING? Are you getting 404 or something else?
Level 4
Hey I received a error message: Target class [DemoController] does not exist
Level 54
usually i see the "target class does not exist" for Controller issues are related to the typo error naming of the class or wrong namespace especially duplicate from other similar controller.
i think it may be better to show the EXACT code for all route list and also the DemoController...
Level 4
Hello Siangboon,
Underneath the exact code. I updated it a little, because Im still working on it. But the User and Admin routes does not work, the viewer and manager does work
My routes file
<?php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use App\Http\Controllers\DemoController;
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/
Route::get('/', function () {
return view('welcome');
});
Route::get('/viewer', 'App\Http\Controllers\DemoController@getViewerPage')->name('viewer');
Route::get('/user', 'App\Http\Controllers\DemoController@getUserPage')->name('user');
Route::get('/manager', 'App\Http\Controllers\DemoController@getManagerPage')->name('manager');
Route::get('/admin', 'App\Http\Controllers\DemoController@getAdminPage')->name('admin');
Route::get('/home', [\App\Http\Controllers\HomeController::class, 'index'])->name('home');
The demo controller:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
class DemoController extends Controller
{
public function getViewerPage()
{
return view('viewer.index');
}
public function getUserPage()
{
return view('user.index');
}
public function getManagerPage()
{
return view('manager.index');
}
public function getAdminPage()
{
return view('admin.index');
}
}
As mentioned, nothing fancy, but I just don't see the error. On User and Admin i receive "Target class [DemoController] does not exist."
But in the end I used the solution of GeorgieJackson which turned out to work. But I still don't now what the error was.
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