Controller Class Not Found - Lumen

My Controller for my class 'Article' cannot be found.


I am needing to fetch all entries from the article table.

I am able to use the DB:: facade to pull what's in the DB, but when I try using Article::all() I get:

Class 'App\Http\Controllers\Article' not found

in ArticleController.php line 15
at Application->Laravel\Lumen\{closure}()

Line 15 looks like:

$article = Article::all();

This is what I've tried so far, but with no success:

- updated .env.example to .env and set up my DB credentials.

- in bootstrap/app.php I've uncommented `Dotenv::load(__DIR__.'/../');`

- In bootstrap/app.php I've uncommented `$app->withFacades(); $app->withEloquent();`

- I've tried to use the full route of the controller in routes.php: `$app->get('article', 'App\Http\Controllers\ArticleController@index');`

My model directory is located under app->Models and has my Article.php model:

<?php

# app/Models/Article.php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Article extends Model
{
protected $table = 'articles';
protected $fillable = ['title', 'content'];
}

My Controller is ArticleController.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;


class ArticleController extends Controller{

public function index(){

$article = Article::all();

return response()->json($article);
}
}

And my routes.php

<?php

$app->get('article', 'ArticleController@index');

I really appreciate any help on this error. I've unfortunately spent the better part of 2 days on this.

Thanks.

Just run `composer update`. a new autoload classmap will be generated and all your new composer will be ready to autoload after successful update.

You need to have the proper namespace. Your `Article` model is in the `App\Models` namespace so you need to add this to the top of your controller:

use App\Models\Article;

Thanks for your responses and for your answer @Thomas. I followed your response and was able to add the correct namespace in my controller.