helper class not found in laravel 5 - php

Question

I have create Helpers folder inside app, then I have created php file amchelpers.php ---> app/Helpers/amchelpers.php
amchelpers.php code:
<?php namespace App;
class AmcHelper {
static function displayString($string){
return $string;
}
}
then added these lines to composer.json
"files": [
"app/Helpers/amchelpers.php"
]
then run this command:
composer dump-autoload
then added 'Helper' => app_path() . '\Helpers\AmcHelper' to aliases array in config/app.php file.
in my controller I have below action (this action defined in route.php):
use Helper;
class UserController extends Controller {
public function displayMyString(){
echo Helper::displayString('Hello');
}
}
when run the page http://localhost:8080/easy_marketing/public/displayMyString
I Got:
ErrorException in compiled.php line 6367: Class 'C:\wamp\www\easy_marketing\app\Helpers\AmcHelper' not found

Answer 1

you have written user Helper instead of use Helper
or
another way to achieve this is
Laravel 5 App directory is autoloaded by default with its folder, what you have to take care is add namespace followed by directory name,
so directory structure is App --> Helpers
so your name space must include App\Helpers
try following code
<?php namespace App\Helpers;
class AmcHelper {
static function displayString($string){
return $string;
}
}
and when you are using this class in another class write this after namespace declaration
use App\Helpers\AmcHelper as Helper;
class UserController extends Controller {
public function displayMyString(){
echo Helper::displayString('Hello');
}
}