Laravel 5.2: Undefined class form

Question

I have a problem with using Form command in a Composer + Laravel 5.2 project with PhpStorm as IDE.

I'm using Laravel Collective 5.2. in my composer.json, so it should work. (sadly, it's not which is the reason I'm here...)

The providers:

Barryvdh\LaravelIdeHelper\IdeHelperServiceProvider::class,
Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider::class,

my aliases.

'Form'      => Collective\Html\FormFacade::class,
'Html'      => Collective\Html\HtmlFacade::class,

The problem: It's returned as a undefined class when I'm using {!! Form::close() !!} or any form command in my blade.php.

Did I misunderstood something when I installed it in the project? What do I need to configure in order for this to work?

And yes, I have looking around on forums. The answers didn't help because they were for Laravel 4 or Laravel 5.1. :S

Did you try to `composer dump-autoload` and `php artisan cache:clear` ? — stephenthedev, Jan 15 '16 at 08:01
@stephenthedev Yeah. It did nothing. :T Still same after I "fired" these two command in terminal. — Danishdjinn, Jan 15 '16 at 08:06
The issue is probably from the package. You can report it as issue here: https://github.com/LaravelCollective/laravelcollective.com/issues — Emeka Mbah, Jan 15 '16 at 08:45

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 15 '16 at 08:55

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Actually i'm not even mad that's amazing because I found a solution to my problem... just around 5 min after I post my question... And I spend around 2 hours to find a solution...

All I did was:

php artisan clear-compiled
php artisan ide-helper:generate
php artisan optimize

and reload the blade.php.

I have no idea why, but it works now. It seems I forgot to run the above commands after I got Laravel Collective 5.2 in the project. This could be the reason that form command didn't work. .___.;;

I hope someone could use this information for their own project.

answered Jan 15 '16 at 08:55

Danishdjinn

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This works in phpstorm. Thanks!!! Tried whole day for fixing this error. :) – Unni Babu Feb 19 '17 at 11:41
`php artisan optimize` has been removed on Laravel 5.6 – George Apr 13 '18 at 12:53

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 29 '16 at 05:23

You can get full solution about form builder in Laravel 5.2.

Run command prompt and execute

composer require laravelcollective/html
Open config/app.php In providers array add Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider::class and in aliases array add

‘Form’ => Collective\Html\FormFacade::class,
‘Html’ => Collective\Html\HtmlFacade::class

For more details, See there http://laraveldeveloper.me/form-in-laravel-5-2

Laravel 5.2: Undefined class form

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