Hello,
I have a new installation of Laravel 10 On Windows 10, using Wamp.
I have this file:
App\Http\Controllers\PagesController.php
The code:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
class PagesController extends Controller
{
public function index(): void
{
dd('in');
}
}
In the routes\web.php file I have:
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Artisan;
use App\Http\Controllers\PagesController;
Route::controller(PagesController::class)->group(function () {
// home
Route::get('/', 'index')->name('home');
});
Trying to browse the site in a browser I get the error: Target class [PagesController] does not exist.
I ran: php artisan cache:clear, php artisan config:clear, php artisan route:clear and composer dump-autoload.
Nothing helps.
What else should I check please?
Thank you
It should work, so it looks like the classes are not loaded.
Have you changed the folder organization of the project ?
Can you show your composer.json file please ?
Something else ... I read my routes rather like below.
Route::get([PagesController::class, 'index'])->name('home');
Where do you get the error? Where is it thrown?
what is the complete path to the class file?
Hi all, I'm sorry for the late reply, I was away.
I think I should mention that I am copying controller, models and views from an old laravel 5.7 project, and trying to make it work going error by error.
This one I can't solve.
@JussiMannisto the error appears on the browser when I try to browse the page.
@Snapey the complete path to the class is: c:\wamp64\www\highlandnew.local/app/http/controllers
@vincent15000 I call the route like I do becuase I'm going to add more calls under the pages controller.
The composer.json file:
{
"name": "laravel/laravel",
"type": "project",
"description": "The skeleton application for the Laravel framework.",
"keywords": ["laravel", "framework"],
"license": "MIT",
"require": {
"php": "^8.1",
"guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^7.2",
"jantinnerezo/livewire-alert": "^4.0",
"laravel/framework": "^10.10",
"laravel/sanctum": "^3.3",
"laravel/tinker": "^2.8",
"laravel/ui": "^4.6",
"realrashid/sweet-alert": "^7.3"
},
"require-dev": {
"fakerphp/faker": "^1.9.1",
"laravel/pint": "^1.0",
"laravel/sail": "^1.18",
"mockery/mockery": "^1.4.4",
"nunomaduro/collision": "^7.0",
"phpunit/phpunit": "^10.1",
"spatie/laravel-ignition": "^2.0"
},
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"App\\": "app/",
"Database\\Factories\\": "database/factories/",
"Database\\Seeders\\": "database/seeders/"
}
},
"autoload-dev": {
"psr-4": {
"Tests\\": "tests/"
}
},
"scripts": {
"post-autoload-dump": [
"Illuminate\\Foundation\\ComposerScripts::postAutoloadDump",
"@php artisan package:discover --ansi"
],
"post-update-cmd": [
"@php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-assets --ansi --force"
],
"post-root-package-install": [
"@php -r \"file_exists('.env') || copy('.env.example', '.env');\""
],
"post-create-project-cmd": [
"@php artisan key:generate --ansi"
]
},
"extra": {
"laravel": {
"dont-discover": []
}
},
"config": {
"optimize-autoloader": true,
"preferred-install": "dist",
"sort-packages": true,
"allow-plugins": {
"pestphp/pest-plugin": true,
"php-http/discovery": true
}
},
"minimum-stability": "stable",
"prefer-stable": true
}
Thank you for taking the time to try and help.
the complete path to the class is: c:\wamp64\www\highlandnew.local/app/http/controllers
@SigalZ Is this actually your path? Because files and folders are case-sensitive. If your folders really are named “http” and “controllers” (all-lowercase), then Composer is not going to find the class when the namespace uses capitalisation (Http, Controllers, etc).
Whenever I see “cannot find file” and “Windows” together, the answer usually boils down to a capitalisation error like this.
An update, I change the route and added 'page', now http://highlandnew.local/page works.
Route::controller(PagesController::class)->group(function () {
// home
Route::get('/page', 'index')->name('home');
});
Why is that?
@SigalZ Show all the routes please.
php artisan route:list
ReflectionException
Class "PagesController" does not exist
at vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Console\RouteListCommand.php:225 221▕ if ($this->isFrameworkController($route)) { 222▕ return false; 223▕ } 224▕ ➜ 225▕ $path = (new ReflectionClass($route->getControllerClass())) 226▕ ->getFileName(); 227▕ } else { 228▕ return false; 229▕ }
1 vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Console\RouteListCommand.php:225 ReflectionClass::__construct("PagesController")
2 vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Console\RouteListCommand.php:147 Illuminate\Foundation\Console\RouteListCommand::isVendorRoute(Object(Illuminate\Routing\Route))
the base route / can't be used in this way. I'm not sure of the exact reason, but its a restriction just on this route.
Why not use 'home' for the homepage?
Route::get('/home', 'index')->name('home');
@Snapey This is strange, because this route works fine on another laravel 10 project I have on my laptop. I will change it to home, but I'm still curious why it doesn't work. Cheers
Thanks, but this is just the way I wrote it here, of course it has the right caplocks
In the controller:
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
@SigalZ in the file path, not the namespace. Read @martinbean post again, and your post that he quotes.
@ghabe this is my path: c:\wamp64\www\highlandnew.local/app/Http/Controllers thank you
You said you're migrating an old Laravel 5 app. Are you also migrating routes, and if you are, do any of them use the old syntax, i.e. PagesController@show?
@JussiMannisto I'm adding the routes one by one with the new syntax, thank you
I checked everything again, I thought I emptied the web.php file, but I didn't.
I removed all the code and left only the PagesController code... (Thank you @JussiMannisto) I think this row was causing the problem:
Route::get('info', 'PagesController@info');
Embarrassing... *)
It is working now.
Thank you all very much for all the help.
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