Laravel 5.1 nested controller class not found - php

Question

The Laravel documentation clearly describes how to change your routes if you nest your controllers in folders. It seems REALLY simple, and yet I'm still getting an error. Here's the error:
"Class App\Http\Controllers\Input\InputController does not exist"
^That path looks 100% correct to me. What gives?
File Structure:
-Controllers
--Auth
--Input
---InputController.php
Routes:
Route::get('input', 'Input\InputController#getInput');
InputController:
<?php namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Response;
class InputController extends Controller
{
public function getInput()
{
return response()->view('1_input.input_form');
}
}
Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

Change Controller namespace from
namespace App\Http\Controllers
to
namespace App\Http\Controllers\Input

Answer 2

namespace needs to be changed to the directory your controller is in 'App\Http\Input'
You need to pull in Controller with use App\Http\Controllers\Contoller so that you can extend it.
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers\Input;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller; // need Controller to extend
use Illuminate\Http\Response;
class InputController extends Controller
{
public function getInput()
{
return response()->view('1_input.input_form');
}
}

Answer 3

you should try running a couple commands in your base dir from your terminal (shell/prompt):
composer dump-autoload
or if you don't have composer set as executable:
php composer dump-autoload
and then:
php artisan clear-compiled
This way your laravel would prepare everything again "from scratch" and should be able to find the missing controller class.
Basically laravel generates some additional files to boot up faster. If you define a new class it doesn't get included into that "compiled" file. This way your class should be "introduced" to the framework.