laravel 5 : Class 'input' not found

Question

In my routes.php file I have :

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

    return view('login');
});

Route::get('/index', function(){
    return view('index');
});

Route::get('/register', function(){
    return view('register');
});
Route::post('/register',function(){

    $user = new \App\User;
    $user->username = input::get('username');
    $user->email  = input::get('email');
    $user->password = Hash::make(input::get('username'));
    $user->designation = input::get('designation');
    $user->save();

});

I have a form for users registration. I am also taking the form inputs value in the routes.php.

But the error comes up when I register a user . Error:

FatalErrorException in routes.php line 61:
Class 'input' not found

Solution 1

It is Input and not input. This commit removed Input facade definition from config/app.php hence you have to manually add that in to aliases array as below,

'Input' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Input::class,

Or You can import Input facade directly as required,

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Input;

Solution 2

For laravel < 5.2:

Open config/app.php and add the Input class to aliases:

'aliases' => [
// ...
  'Input' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Input::class,
// ...
],

---

For laravel >= 5.2

Change Input:: to Request::

Solution 3

In Laravel 5.2 Input:: is replaced with Request::

use

Request::

Add to the top of Controller or any other Class

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

Solution 4

You can add a facade in your folder\config\app.php

'Input' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Input::class,

Solution 5

In larvel => 6 Version:

Input no longer exists In larvel 6,7,8 Version. Use Request instead of Input.

Based on the Laravel docs, since version 6.x Input has been removed.

The Input Facade

Likelihood Of Impact: Medium

The Input facade, which was primarily a duplicate of the Request facade, has been removed. If you are using the Input::get method, you should now call the Request::input method. All other calls to the Input facade may simply be updated to use the Request facade.

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Request;
..
..
..
 public function functionName(Request $request)
    {
        $searchInput = $request->q;
}

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Comments

[nclsvh]

What if I use laravelcollective for the forms in laravel 5.2 and I use {{ Form }} in a view, not in routes as Shafee does. {{ Form::text('name', Input::old('name'), array('class' => 'form-control')) }}

[pinkal vansia]

You can use \Input to access it globally

[nclsvh]

How or where do I need to put this? Changing Input to \Input (inside the form tags) does not work.. Also I am not using illuminate\support\facades.. but "laravelcollective/html": "5.2.*"

[pinkal vansia]

Sorry I did not pay attention to your earlier comment but in HTML you can use helper function old() which is nothing but wrapper for Input::old()

[Nik Sumeiko]

@NicolasV you can put it under aliases inside config/app.php, as Nvan's answer points out.

[Blasanka]

Input is replaced with laravel 5.2 use Illuminate\Http\Request;