Class 'App\Http\Controllers\Search' not Found - php

Question

I'm new to Laravel we are trying to add (https://github.com/TomLingham/Laravel-Searchy) to our project (https://github.com/wvulibraries/rockefeller-css/tree/trying-searchy) to allow the search of multiple fields in a table. I can see the package is in the vendor folder as tom-lingham for some reason I am not able to even use it. I get FatalThrowableError in DataViewController.php line 79: Class 'App\http\Controllers\Search' not Found. I followed the instructions in the github repo. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;
// Import the table and collection models
use App\Table;
use App\Collection;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;
/**
* The controller is responsible for showing the cards data
*/
class DataViewController extends Controller {
/**
* Constructor that associates the middlewares
*
* #return void
*/
public function __construct(){
// Middleware to check for authenticated
$this->middleware('auth');
}
/**
* Show the data from the selected table
*/
public function index(Request $request, $curTable){
// Get the table entry in meta table "tables"
$curTable = Table::find($curTable);
if(!$curTable->hasAccess){
return redirect()->route('home')->withErrors(['Table is disabled']);
}
// Get and return of table doesn't have any records
$numOfRcrds = DB::table($curTable->tblNme)->count();
// check for the number of records
if ($numOfRcrds == 0){
return redirect()->route('home')->withErrors(['Table does not have any records.']);
}
// Get the records 30 at a time
$rcrds = DB::table($curTable->tblNme)->paginate(30);
// retrieve the column names
$clmnNmes = DB::getSchemaBuilder()->getColumnListing($curTable->tblNme);
// return the index page
return view('user.data')->with('rcrds',$rcrds)
->with('clmnNmes',$clmnNmes)
->with('tblNme',$curTable->tblNme)
->with('tblId',$curTable);
}
public function show(Request $request, $curTable, $curId){
// Get the table entry in meta table "tables"
$curTable = Table::find($curTable);
if(!$curTable->hasAccess){
return redirect()->route('home')->withErrors(['Table is disabled']);
}
// Check if search string and column were passed
if (strlen($curId) != 0) {
$numOfRcrds = DB::table($curTable->tblNme)
->where('id', '=', $curId)
->count();
// check for the number of records
if ($numOfRcrds == 0){
return redirect()->route('home')->withErrors(['Search Yeilded No Results']);
}
else {
// $rcrds = DB::table($curTable->tblNme)
// ->where('id', '=', $curId)
// ->get();
$rcrds = Searchy::search($curTable->tblNme)->fields('id')->query($curId)->get();
}
}
else {
return redirect()->route('home')->withErrors(['Invalid ID']);
}
// retrieve the column names
$clmnNmes = DB::getSchemaBuilder()->getColumnListing($curTable->tblNme);
// return the index page
return view('user.show')->with('rcrds',$rcrds)
->with('clmnNmes',$clmnNmes)
->with('tblNme',$curTable->tblNme)
->with('tblId',$curTable);
}
}

Answer 1

You're running into a namespacing issue.
Your controller is in the App\Http\Controllers namespace, so that's where it will look by default. At the top of your controller, adding a use Searchy; line alongside the existing use lines will make it work, or you can preface Searchy with a \ to tell PHP to start at the namespace root.
$rcrds = \Searchy::search(...);