Laravel 6.x Backpack NewsCrud Plugin - php

Question

What I want to do is allow the admin panel to post news using newscrud. I am confused in how would I grab the information from the database and show the user the articles.
I am having trouble using the newscrud plugin for laravel. I quite don't understand how to use this plugin. I have installed it using composer. All the controllers, models etc. are in the vendor folder in my Laravel project.
Attempts:
What I tried to do is make a function in the
laravel-project/vendor/backpack/newscrud/src/app/Http/Controllers/Admin/ArticleCrudController.php file:
public function index()
{
# Pass the article database information in articles var
$articles = Articles::all();
# Return this variable to blog page
return view ('blog')->with('articles', $articles);
}
And in the routes/web.php file:
Route::get('/blog', 'ArticleCrudController#index')->name('blog');
Front-end code
#foreach($articles as $article)
<div class="col-md-12 d-flex ftco-animate">
<div class="blog-entry align-self-stretch d-md-flex">
<a href="blog-single.html" class="block-20" style="background-image: url('images/image_6.jpg');">
</a>
<div class="text d-block pl-md-4">
<div class="meta mb-3">
<div>July 20, 2019</div>
<div>Admin</div>
<div><span class="icon-chat"></span> 3</div>
</div>
<h3 class="heading">Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts</h3>
<p>Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts.</p>
<p>Read more</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
#endforeach
Error
The error message I get is:
Target class [App\Http\Controllers\ArticleCrudController] does not exist.
If you need information/screenshots I am willing to provide them.

Answer 1

When using composer in PHP, you should never make modifications to files inside the /vendor/ folder. Because as soon as you run composer update, they will get overwritten.
If I understand correctly, What you’re trying to do has little to do with Backpack. You should not overwrite the package in the vendor folder. You should create a controller in your app folder, with a routes in your routes folder, line you would normally do in Laravel. Just make sure that, when you reference the model, you reference Backpack\NewsCRUD\app\Models\Article instead of App\Models\Article.
Hope it helps!

Answer 2

The error message
App\Http\Controllers\ArticleCrudController
show that Laravel is not able to resolve the controller in the PHP namespace App\Http\Controllers.
I just looked into the library's code and I suggest you to replace
Route::get('/blog', 'ArticleCrudController#index')->name('blog');
by
Route::get('/blog', 'Backpack\\NewsCRUD\\app\\Http\\Controllers\\Admin\\ArticleCrudController#index')->name('blog');

Answer 3

Try to edit your web.php like this:
Route::group([
'prefix' => '/',
'middleware' => ['web'],
// This is all the namespace in directory
'namespace' => 'laravel-project\vendor\backpack\newscrud\src\app\Http\Controllers\Admin',
], function () {
Route::get('/blog', 'ArticleCrudController#index')->name('blog');
});
And edit your ArticleCrudController.php file to:
namespace laravel-project\vendor\backpack\newscrud\src\app\Http\Controllers\Admin;
Hope this can help :)