Laravel 5 - Vendor - Class not found - php

Question

I am using laravel-analytics (https://github.com/spatie/laravel-analytics/) and have installed everything locally, works fine.
Whenever I try to upload to the server, however, I get the following error visiting the page: Class 'LaravelAnalytics' not found and I am trying to access it via: use \LaravelAnalytics as Analytics;
I am using both linux operating systems, both locally and on the server. I have also ran: composer update and now get: Nothing to install or update
I have checked the .json file and I can see the package I am trying to install is there.
{
"name": "laravel/laravel",
"description": "The Laravel Framework.",
"keywords": ["framework", "laravel"],
"license": "MIT",
"type": "project",
"require": {
"php": ">=5.5.9",
"laravel/framework": "5.1.*",
"illuminate/html": "5.*",
"spatie/laravel-analytics": "^1.2"
},
"require-dev": {
"fzaninotto/faker": "~1.4",
"mockery/mockery": "0.9.*",
"phpunit/phpunit": "~4.0",
"phpspec/phpspec": "~2.1"
},
"autoload": {
"classmap": [
"database"
],
"files":
["app/Http/helpers.php"],
"psr-4": {
"App\\": "app/"
}
},
"autoload-dev": {
"classmap": [
"tests/TestCase.php"
]
},
"scripts": {
"post-install-cmd": [
"php artisan clear-compiled",
"php artisan optimize"
],
"pre-update-cmd": [
"php artisan clear-compiled"
],
"post-update-cmd": [
"php artisan optimize"
],
"post-root-package-install": [
"php -r \"copy('.env.example', '.env');\""
],
"post-create-project-cmd": [
"php artisan key:generate"
]
},
"config": {
"preferred-install": "dist"
}
}
Anyone have any ideas to what I am missing or where I am going wrong?

Answer 1

I faced a similar problem. Uploading the vendor/composer folder worked for me !

Answer 2

Being myself confronted with this problem, I first would like to thank riza who put me on the path.
According to the documentation, after installed the service provider and facade, we have to do this command :
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\Analytics\AnalyticsServiceProvider"
Which causes the following error : Class 'Spatie\Analytics\AnalyticsServiceProvider' not found
If we see into vendor/spatie/laravel-analytics/src, we can see that the required classes contain Laravel string at the beginning of their names.
Solution :
So to solve this error, we need to change the call made from the config/app.php file :
providers section. Change this :
Spatie\Analytics\AnalyticsServiceProvider::class,
by :
Spatie\LaravelAnalytics\LaravelAnalyticsServiceProvider::class,
aliases section, change this :
'Analytics' => Spatie\Analytics\AnalyticsFacade::class,
by :
'Analytics' => Spatie\LaravelAnalytics\LaravelAnalyticsFacade::class,
Then, run again the following command, to make it work (added Laravel string too) :
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\LaravelAnalytics\LaravelAnalyticsServiceProvider"
Then go to config/ folder. You should see a file called laravel-analytics.php.

Answer 3

I had similar problem when I created own package. PHP Storm was finding class but when scripts started then status 500 was shown. The reason was simple - be sure that your package from vendor include in it's composer.json
"autoload": {
"classmap": [
"src/"
]
}
Then it will be autoloaded.

Answer 4

Change your psr-4 to this:
"psr-4": {
"App\\": "app/",
"vendor\\spatie\\" : "spatie/"
}
hope this work for you.

Answer 5

You have to add the class to the aliases (or use the FQCN):
// config/app.php
'aliases' => [
...
'LaravelAnalytics' => 'Spatie\LaravelAnalytics\LaravelAnalyticsFacade',
...
];

Answer 6

"require: {
"php": ">=5.5.9",
"laravel/framework": "5.1.*",
"illuminate/html": "5.*",
"spatie/laravel-analytics": "^1.2"**
}
Seems that you are using the php 5.* and that's why composer pulling the 1.2 version of the package which has different class.
I got the same problem a month ago
The read me file that you read to setup package is for 2.4 version which is for php 7.0
Just update your php 5.* to php 7.* or get the read me file of 1.2 version of package to setup package correctly
For details see my blog: Class not found error due to php version mismatch