Laravel 5: DB Seed class not found

Question

I have this DatabaseSeeder.php:

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;



    class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder {

        /**
         * Run the database seeds.
         *
         * @return void
         */
        public function run()
        {
            Model::unguard();

            $this->call('MemberInvitationSeeder');
        }
    }

I have this file MemberInvitationSeeder.php, sibling to the DatabaseSeeder.php file

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
use App\MemberInvitation;

    class MemberInvitationSeeder extends Seeder {

        public function run()
        {
            MemberInvitation::truncate();

            MemberInvitation::create( [
                'id' => 'BlahBlah' ,//com_create_guid(),
                'partner_id' => 1,
                'fisrt_name' => 'Thats',
                'last_name' => 'Me',
                'email' => '[email protected]',
                'mobile_phone' => '444-342-4234',
                'created_at' => new DateTime
            ] );

        }
    }

Now I call

php artisan db:seed

and I get:

[ReflectionException]                        
  Class MemberInvitationSeeder does not exist

I tried everything I could find including "composer dump-autoload". to no avail. What am I doing wrong?

Solution 1

I believe I know the reason now.

The new class MemberInvitationSeeder wasn't in the autoloaded classes in the composer.json file.

It wasn't there because I added that class manually.

Now, going forward, if I add such classes again, what should I use in order for my class to automatically to the autoloader?

Solution 2

Step one - generate seed:

php artisan make:seed MemberInvitationSeeder

Step two - In DatabaseSeeder.php add line:

$this->call(MemberInvitationSeeder::class);

Step three:

composer dump-autoload

Step four:

php artisan db:seed

This should work

---

If this isn't the clue, check the composer.json file and make sure you have code below in the "autoload" section:

"classmap": [
    "database"
],

Solution 3

I solved this by adding the class to the seeder file, with the instruction use:

<?php
use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use App\YourClassName;

Solution 4

This work for me

1. composer dump-autoload
2. php artisan db:seed

Solution 5

I ran into the similar error but I was using DB facade DB::table rather than model. I am posting the answer just in case somebody has similar issues.

The seeder file had namespace namespace Database\Seeders; and laravel was trying to look for DB class inside the namespace and hence the error appeared.

Class 'Database\Seeders\DB' not found.

Resolutions:

• Remove the namespace and run composer dump-autoload
• OR Add a backslash to \DB::table('stock_categories')->([ ... ]); so Laravel starts looking the DB facade from root (not from the namespace specified)

Eg,

\DB::table('MemberInvitation')->insert( [
         'id' => 'BlahBlah' ,//com_create_guid(),
         'partner_id' => 1,
         'fisrt_name' => 'Thats',
         'last_name' => 'Me',
         'email' => '[email protected]',
         'mobile_phone' => '444-342-4234',
         'created_at' => new DateTime
    ] );

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