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Antonella's avatar

problem install nova-translatable: Class 'Spatie\NovaTranslatable\Translatable' not found

I have installed the package

composer require spatie/nova-translatable

then following what is written in the documentation I entered:

\Spatie\NovaTranslatable\Translatable::defaultLocales(['en', 'fr']);

in AppServiceProvider as follows:

<?php

namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    /**
     * Register any application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function register()
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Bootstrap any application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function boot()
    {
        \Spatie\NovaTranslatable\Translatable::defaultLocales(['en', 'fr','it']);
    }
}

give me following error :

Error Class 'Spatie\NovaTranslatable\Translatable' not found app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php:26

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Sinnbeck's avatar

Did it install properly?

Check your composer.json file if it is listed in there

Antonella's avatar

{ "name": "laravel/laravel", "type": "project", "description": "The Laravel Framework.", "keywords": [ "framework", "laravel" ], "license": "MIT", "require": { "php": "^7.3|^8.0", "fideloper/proxy": "^4.4", "fruitcake/laravel-cors": "^2.0", "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^7.0.1", "laravel/framework": "^8.12", "laravel/nova": "*", "laravel/tinker": "^2.5", "spatie/nova-translatable": "^3.0" }, "require-dev": { "facade/ignition": "^2.5", "fakerphp/faker": "^1.9.1", "laravel/sail": "^0.0.5", "mockery/mockery": "^1.4.2", "nunomaduro/collision": "^5.0", "phpunit/phpunit": "^9.3.3" }, "config": { "optimize-autoloader": true, "preferred-install": "dist", "sort-packages": true }, "extra": { "laravel": { "dont-discover": [] } }, "autoload": { "psr-4": { "App\": "app/", "Database\Factories\": "database/factories/", "Database\Seeders\": "database/seeders/" } }, "repositories": [ { "type": "path", "url": "./nova" } ], "autoload-dev": { "psr-4": { "Tests\": "tests/" } }, "minimum-stability": "dev", "prefer-stable": true, "scripts": { "post-autoload-dump": [ "Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts::postAutoloadDump", "@php artisan package:discover --ansi" ], "post-root-package-install": [ "@php -r "file_exists('.env') || copy('.env.example', '.env');"" ], "post-create-project-cmd": [ "@php artisan key:generate --ansi" ] } }

@sinnbeck yes is installed corretly

Sinnbeck's avatar
Sinnbeck
Best Answer
Level 102

Try importing the file, and running composer dump-autoload

<?php

namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
use Spatie\NovaTranslatable\Translatable;

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    /**
     * Register any application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function register()
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Bootstrap any application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function boot()
    {
        Translatable::defaultLocales(['en', 'fr','it']);
    }
}

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