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Beardslapper
Beardslapper

Reputation: 153

How do you include a global class in laravel

I would like to include a class for every controller to use. Here is what I tried with no luck.

In the Controller.php file, I added this line of code:

use App\Lib\RequestType;

Then in my controller UserController.php, I called a test function.

dd(RequestType::test());

But a fatal error is thrown.

Class 'App\Http\Controllers\RequestType' not found

What is laravel looking for the class in the Controllers folder. Shouldn't UserController inherit the Controller class?

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5650

Answers (2)

Qevo
Qevo

Reputation: 2371

There is no way to auto-magically have a class everywhere.

PHP use is not inherited by extending classes. Even Laravel's Facades have to specified.

You can store the class in the App\Http\Controllers\Controller->__contruct() to make it more easily manageable.

// App\Http\Controllers\Controller
public function __construct()
{
    $this->requestType = new RequestType();
}

// App\Http\Controllers\FooController
public function __construct()
{
    parent::__contruct();
}

public function index()
{
    $requestType = $this->requestType;
}

Upvotes: 0

curious_coder
curious_coder

Reputation: 2458

If you are trying to write a static class and call it by use, then one option is to make use of autoload feature of composer, which will enable the class to be used anywhere.

"autoload": {
        "psr-4": {
            "App\\": "app/"
        },
        "classmap": [
          "app/Lib"
        ]
    },

Then in any controller

use RequestType;

then

dd(RequestType::test());

Note: Function test should be like

public static function test()

Upvotes: 0

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