Laravel, namespaces and PSR-4

Question

I'm trying to set up PSR-4 within a new Laravel 4 application, but I'm getting some troubles achieving what I want when it comes to build controllers.

Here's what I have now :

namespace MyApp\Controllers\Domain;

class DomainController extends \BaseController {

    public $layout = 'layouts.default';

    public function home() {
        $this->layout->content = \View::make('domain.home');
    }
}

I'm not so fond of using \View, \Config, \Whatever to use Laravel's classes. So I was wondering if I could put a use Illuminate\View; to be able to use View::make without putting a \.

Unfortunately, while doing this, I'm getting the following error : Class 'Illuminate\View' not found.

Could somebody help with this please ?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 18 '14 at 08:02

Assuming BaseController.php has a namespace of MyApp\Controllers\Domain

namespace MyApp\Controllers\Domain;

use View;

class DomainController extends BaseController {

    public $layout = 'layouts.default';

    public function home() {
        $this->layout->content = View::make('domain.home');
    }
}

If BaseController.php has other namespace, i.e MyApp\Controllers

namespace MyApp\Controllers\Domain;

use MyApp\Controllers\BaseController;
use View;

class DomainController extends BaseController {

    public $layout = 'layouts.default';

    public function home() {
        $this->layout->content = View::make('domain.home');
    }
}

If, for instance, you controller needs to use another base class from Laravel, lets say Config.

namespace MyApp\Controllers\Domain;

use MyApp\Controllers\BaseController;
use View;
use Config;

class DomainController extends BaseController {

    public $layout = 'layouts.default';

    public function home() {
        $this->layout->content = View::make('domain.home')->withName(Config::get('site.name'));
    }
}

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 18 '14 at 08:17

1

The problem in your case is that View is not located in Illuminate namespace but in Illuminate\View namespace, so correct import would be not:

use Illuminate\View;

but

use Illuminate\View\View;

You can look at http://laravel.com/api/4.2/ to find out which namespace is correct for class you want to use

answered Sep 18 '14 at 08:17

Marcin Nabiałek

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 05 '15 at 20:35

The use of View::make() takes advantage of the Laravel facades. To properly reference the facade, instead of directly referencing the class that gets resolved out of the iOC container, I would use the following:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\View;

This will reference the View facade that is being used when calling View::make()

Laravel, namespaces and PSR-4

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