Level 104
The namespace should map to the directory if the project is using PSR-4 autoloading.
So, App\Http\Controllers\SiteWeb class would be located in app/Http/Controllers directory.
Mar 7, 2021
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Level 2
Target class controller does not exist
Hi everyone ,
I'm new to laravel & I totally enjoy it . I recently joined a project (project is base on laravel 6) , the project works totally fine on my coworkers computers, my problem is that when i clone it and launch it , i get a :
Illuminate \ Contracts \ Container \ BindingResolutionException
Target class [App\Http\Controllers\SiteWeb] does not exist.
exemple of a route :
Route::get('', 'SiteWeb@index')->name('welcome');
The controller itself is in a folder :
App/Controllers/Api/Website
Namespace in the controller seems ok :
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
I tried without effect:
composer dump-autoload
php artisan config:cache
php artisan cache:clear
....
I had a look through many post / discussion but i can't find any appropriate solution, Any help would be really appreciated :) Thanks in advance !
Level 2
if i understand what you say the namespace should always be app/Http/Controllers , even if the controller is in a subfolder here for exemple App/Controllers/Api/Website/SiteWeb.php.
But the problem in my case is that in the controller SiteWeb.php , the namespace is
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
I also checked RouteServiceProvide.php and this is written :
protected $namespace = 'App\Http\Controllers';
About ps-4 autoloading (even though i dont relly know the use of it), i can see a line about it in composer.json
"psr-4": {
"App\": "app/"
},
Thanks for your time !!! :)
Level 104
if the Controller is in that directory, then the namespace should be
App\Controllers\Api\Website
And your route definition will need to be absolute, rather than relative (not 100% sure if this will work when there is a namespace defined in the RouteServiceProvider):
Route::get('', '\App\Controllers\Api\Website\SiteWeb@index')->name('welcome');
Level 63
In your web.php (route) file, you have to declare the class.
use App\Http\Controllers\SiteWeb;
And to declare the route, with Laravel 8 you have a new syntax.
Route::get('', [SiteWeb::class, 'index'])->name('welcome');
Oh sorry ... I have just seen you are using Laravel 6.
So you can write this ;).
Route::get('', 'SiteWeb@index')->name('welcome');
Tell me if it helps ;).
Level 2
Didnt worked , but thanks anyway :)
Level 1
as @tykus mentioned you namespace is not mapping the directory tree,
change the controller's namspace to
namespace App\Http\Controllers\Api\Website;
and the route should looks like this
Route::get('', 'Api\Website\SiteWeb@index')->name('welcome');
Level 2
Ho , I understood it wrong the first time , but even if i change the namespace to
namespace App\Http\Controllers\Api\Website;
I still have the target class error ...
The weird part is that for my coworker everything s fine when they clone the project, and they have the same cloned repo as I do... I'm really confused about that...
Level 63
Perhaps you should have a look at the RouteServiceProvider.php file.
/**
* The controller namespace for the application.
*
* When present, controller route declarations will automatically be prefixed with this namespace.
*
* @var string|null
*/
protected $namespace = 'App\Http\Controllers';
If a namespace is specified in the provider, you don't have to specify it in the web.php file.
Level 2
I've found the issue ,
it was the version of composer which made the error, i was on 2.* and i downgraded to 1.6* , which is i think, the one use for the original project.
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