Using Model in custom Laravel Artisan

Question

EDIT: Added my model's namespace section.

I have a working custom Artisan command but once I start inserting a model which I created I'm immediately greeted with an error.

<?php namespace App\Command;

use App\Models\Samplemodel;

public function fire()
{
    $name = $this->argument('name');
    // This next line won't work
    $age = Samplemodel::get_age($this->option('bday')); // Line 42

    $this->line("My name is {$name} and my age is {$age}.");
}

I'm always met with the error:

{"error":{"type":"Symfony\\Component\\Debug\\Exception\\FatalErrorException","message":"Class 'App\\Models\\Samplemodel' not found","fi
le":"X:\\xampp\\htdocs\\laralabs\\laralabs.app\\app\\commands\\SampleCommand.php","line":42}}{"error":{"type":"Symfony\\Component\\De
bug\\Exception\\FatalErrorException","message":"Class 'App\\Models\\Samplemodel' not found","file":"X:\\xampp\\htdocs\\laralabs\\larala
bs.app\\app\\commands\\SampleCommand.php","line":42}}

I removed the other methods from this sample code to keep things clean. That's basically it, does that mean I can't use a model when creating a custom Artisan command?

As requested, the first few lines of my model:

<?php namespace App\Models;

use DB;
use Config;
use Eloquent;
use DateTime;

class Helper extends Eloquent { ... }

The actual name of my model is Helper. This class doesn't have any properties only methods.

Answer 1

It works, as long you correctly namespace your stuff. I just tested it here:

Created the command:

artisan command:make UseModel

Altered the source code to:

<?php

use Illuminate\Console\Command;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputOption;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputArgument;

class UseModel extends Command {

    protected $name = 'model';

    protected $description = 'Command description.';

    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
    }

    public function fire()
    {
        var_dump(ACR\Models\Article::all());
    }

    protected function getArguments()
    {
        return array(
        );
    }

    protected function getOptions()
    {
        return array(
        );
    }

}

Added it to artisan.php:

Artisan::add(new UseModel);

And ran it to test:

artisan model

And it vardumped the model

This is the model:

<?php namespace ACR\Models;

class Article extends Eloquent {

    protected $table = 'articles';

}

Also worked using

use ACR\Models\Article;

and

var_dump(Article::all());