simple Laravel View::make() not working

Question

So I'm learning some basic Laravel stuff as I am new to PHP. I am following a basic tutorial that is having me print stuff to a file named home.blade.php.

The way I am calling it now is as follows.

Here is my routes.php

Route::get('/', array(
    'as' => 'home',
    'uses' => 'HomeController@home'
));

Here is my HomeController.php

class HomeController extends Controller {

    public function home() {
        return View::make('home');
    }

}

Here is home.blade.php

{{'Hello.'}}

Before you ask, yes my home.blade.php is inside of my Views folder.

The error print out is as follows

FatalErrorException in HomeController.php line 6:
Class 'App\Http\Controllers\View' not found
in HomeController.php line 6
at HandleExceptions->fatalExceptionFromError(array('type' => '1', 'message' => 'Class 'App\Http\Controllers\View' not found', 'file' => '/Users/ryandushane/Google Drive/Web_WorkSpace/theNeonSurf/app/Http/Controllers/HomeController.php', 'line' => '6')) in compiled.php line 1738
at HandleExceptions->handleShutdown()

Here's the odd part. If I change my routes.php to simply contain

Route::get('/', function()
{
    return View::make('home');
});

it functions fine.

Does anyone have an idea of what I could do?

Which Laravel version are you using? – mininoz Mar 06 '15 at 05:51 — mininoz, Mar 06 '15 at 05:51

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 06 '15 at 06:01

14

New syntax for Laravel 5

public function home() {
    return view('home');
}

For more information you can read it from here http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/views

answered Mar 06 '15 at 06:01

mininoz

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Ahhh. Makes sense. A lot of their documentation still shows `View::make()` which is why I was confused. – ryndshn Mar 06 '15 at 06:07

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 14 '16 at 09:59

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Try this in your top of the class(controller)

use View;

answered Apr 14 '16 at 09:59

Raham

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kylehyde215 · Answer 3 · 2015-03-06T05:59:21.373

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I bet your controller class has a namespace, yes? Try \View::make('home'); Or you can import it in the top of the file:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use View;

class HomeController extends Controller {

    public function home() {
        return View::make('home');
    }

}

edited Mar 06 '15 at 05:59

answered Mar 06 '15 at 05:51

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can you tell me why this works? You're correct. thanks for you're help! is this new in Laravel 5? (the tutorial I'm following is from Laravel 4) – ryndshn Mar 06 '15 at 05:54
It's not new for laravel 5. When you are inside a namespace in php, all classes outside of the namespace need to be prefixed with "\" or need to be imported with the `use` statement. Without the "\", you were actually saying class `App\View` which obviously doesn't exist. – kylehyde215 Mar 06 '15 at 05:57
doing `return \View::make('home');` works. However `use View;` does not. – ryndshn Mar 06 '15 at 05:58

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