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: 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: While I’m doing a … Read more

Class ‘App\Http\Controllers\DB’ not found in Laravel 5 Controller

DB is not in your current namespace App\Http\Controllers. So you can either import it at the top or precede it with a backslash \DB::table(…). This solves the class not found exception. You are however not getting a Laravel Collection of Employee models but an array of database rows. Arrays are not objects that have a count() function which … Read more

How can I remove a package from Laravel using PHP Composer?

Composer 1.x and 2.x Running the following command will remove the package from vendor (or wherever you install packages), composer.json and composer.lock. Change vendor/package appropriately. Obviously you’ll need to remove references to that package within your app. I’m currently running the following version of Composer: Documentation Updates 26/10/2020 – Updated answer to assert command works … Read more

Just to state the obvious for anyone viewing this discussion…. if you give any of your folders 777 permissions, you are allowing ANYONE to read, write and execute any file in that directory…. what this means is you have given ANYONE (any hacker or malicious person in the entire world) permission to upload ANY file, … Read more