Laravel: Target class does not exist. But it does - php

I've searched for answers, but mostly the problem was a typo in class or a controller.
In my case everything is spelled properly. Class in app\Http\Controllers\GenerateTextController.php:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
class generateText extends Controller
{
public function generate()
{
dd('success');
}
}
then I try to inject it into blade. home.blade.php :
#inject ('generate', 'App\Http\Controllers\GenerateTextController')
#dd($generate)
Result:
Target class [App\Http\Controllers\GenerateTextController] does not exist.
I have already composer autoloaded couple of times, artisan cache cleared, nothing helps. I can't even find a closest solution in web.
Interesting thing: When I try dd on the other class, that was, how to say, "predefined" by Laravel - it shows the class. And my second custom class can be viewed in browser with such injection.
Any help appreciated.

Your class file name is app\Http\Controllers\GenerateTextController.php but the class name is generateText, that's the problem. The class name and the file name should match. This is how, PSR-4 autoloader works.
From the Specification:
The terminating class name corresponds to a file name ending in .php.
The file name MUST match the case of the terminating class name.
So the class name should be like:
class GenerateTextController extends Controller
{
// ...
}
Read about PSR-4 autoloader to understand it.

Classes file name should be the same as the PHP class name.
class GenerateTextController extends Controller

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Attempted to load class "TwitterOAuth" from namespace "rootspace\FrontBundle\Networks" in D:\Dropbox\project\src\rootspace\FrontBundle\Controller\TwitterController.php line 15. Do you need to "use" it from another namespace?
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So in your case rootspace\FrontBundle\Networks\TwitterOAuth class should be located in rootspace/FrontBundle/Networks directory in file called TwitterOAuth.php
If classes you are using does not follow PSR standards you can also register them manually in app/autoloader.php file
Check these for more info:
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And check this answer
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I am working on a php sdk rewrite project and the client wants to get PSR standards done. I am looking at the standards page here
https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/blob/master/accepted/PSR-0.md
One thing what i am not able to understand, if i use name spaces in my class do i still need to use include or require or use. I mean the whole reason of autoload beats the purpose right ?
For example, say i have a class this way,
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and i have another class which uses this class by extending it,
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{
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so does the above code make it to psr-0 standard considering that i have an autoload function exactly thats on the link above.
The second example is going to assume Department is in the Community namespace so in this case you would need a use statement. Also both of your examples would use the namespace Employee not Employee\Whatever for example lets assume the following layout:
Employee/
Community.php
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Manager.php
Then we would see the class/namespaces like the following
namespace Employee;
class Department {
}
///////////
namespace Employee;
class Community extends Department {
}
/////////////
namespace Employee\Department;
class Manager {
}
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namespace Employee\Community;
use Employee\Department\Manager as BaseManager;
Class Manager extends BaseManager {
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On the other hand, the FIG standard for autoloading, PSR-0, defines how a namespace will be translated into a filename by a PSR-0 autoloader function. For example, given the namespace Vendor\Foo, the autoloader will look for the file Vendor/Foo.php having the following code
namespace Vendor;
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{
public function do()
{
echo "Foo";
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I imagine that you did not expect the full class names from your snippets to be Employee\Department\Department, and that is why I first suggested keeping the same namespace for your purposes.

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