Laravel – Model Class not found

Laravel 5 promotes the use of namespaces for things like Models and Controllers. Your Model is under the App namespace, so your code needs to call it like this:

Route::get('/posts', function(){

        $results = \App\Post::all();
        return $results;
});

As mentioned in the comments you can also use or import a namespace in to a file so you don’t need to quote the full path, like this:

use App\Post;

Route::get('/posts', function(){

        $results = Post::all();
        return $results;
});

While I’m doing a short primer on namespaces I might as well mention the ability to alias a class as well. Doing this means you can essentially rename your class just in the scope of one file, like this:

use App\Post as PostModel;

Route::get('/posts', function(){

        $results = PostModel::all();
        return $results;
});

More info on importing and aliasing namespaces here: http://php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.importing.php