Laravel 5 - Vendor - Class not found

Question

I am using laravel-analytics (https://github.com/spatie/laravel-analytics/) and have installed everything locally, works fine.

Whenever I try to upload to the server, however, I get the following error visiting the page: Class 'LaravelAnalytics' not found and I am trying to access it via: use \LaravelAnalytics as Analytics;

I am using both linux operating systems, both locally and on the server. I have also ran: composer update and now get: Nothing to install or update

I have checked the .json file and I can see the package I am trying to install is there.

{
    "name": "laravel/laravel",
    "description": "The Laravel Framework.",
    "keywords": ["framework", "laravel"],
    "license": "MIT",
    "type": "project",
    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.5.9",
        "laravel/framework": "5.1.*",
        "illuminate/html": "5.*",
        "spatie/laravel-analytics": "^1.2"
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "fzaninotto/faker": "~1.4",
        "mockery/mockery": "0.9.*",
        "phpunit/phpunit": "~4.0",
        "phpspec/phpspec": "~2.1"
    },
    "autoload": {
        "classmap": [
            "database"
        ],
        "files":
        ["app/Http/helpers.php"],

        "psr-4": {
            "App\\": "app/"
        }
    },
    "autoload-dev": {
        "classmap": [
            "tests/TestCase.php"
        ]
    },
    "scripts": {
        "post-install-cmd": [
            "php artisan clear-compiled",
            "php artisan optimize"
        ],
        "pre-update-cmd": [
            "php artisan clear-compiled"
        ],
        "post-update-cmd": [
            "php artisan optimize"
        ],
        "post-root-package-install": [
            "php -r \"copy('.env.example', '.env');\""
        ],
        "post-create-project-cmd": [
            "php artisan key:generate"
        ]
    },
    "config": {
        "preferred-install": "dist"
    }
}

Anyone have any ideas to what I am missing or where I am going wrong?

Solution 1

I faced a similar problem. Uploading the vendor/composer folder worked for me !

Solution 2

Being myself confronted with this problem, I first would like to thank riza who put me on the path.

According to the documentation, after installed the service provider and facade, we have to do this command :

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\Analytics\AnalyticsServiceProvider"

Which causes the following error : Class 'Spatie\Analytics\AnalyticsServiceProvider' not found

If we see into vendor/spatie/laravel-analytics/src, we can see that the required classes contain Laravel string at the beginning of their names.

Solution : So to solve this error, we need to change the call made from the config/app.php file :

• providers section. Change this :

  Spatie\Analytics\AnalyticsServiceProvider::class,
  

  by :

  Spatie\LaravelAnalytics\LaravelAnalyticsServiceProvider::class,
  

• aliases section, change this :

  'Analytics' => Spatie\Analytics\AnalyticsFacade::class,
  

  by :

  'Analytics' => Spatie\LaravelAnalytics\LaravelAnalyticsFacade::class,
  

Then, run again the following command, to make it work (added Laravel string too) :

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\LaravelAnalytics\LaravelAnalyticsServiceProvider"

Then go to config/ folder. You should see a file called laravel-analytics.php.

Solution 3

I had similar problem when I created own package. PHP Storm was finding class but when scripts started then status 500 was shown. The reason was simple - be sure that your package from vendor include in it's composer.json

"autoload": {
        "classmap": [
            "src/"
        ]
    }

Then it will be autoloaded.