Laravel does not load subfolder from /app/models - php

Question

I'm trying to arrange things properly in my app, so I created a folder called "validators" in my "/app/models" directory to keep my custom validation rules there. I expected it to be auto-loaded, but it's not. Here's the code of my validator:
class AuthValidator extends \Illuminate\Validation\Validator
{
public function validateActive($input, $value, $parameters)
{
if ( $input === "email" )
{
return User::where("email", $value)->first()->confirmed();
} else
{
return true;
}
}
}
Validator::resolver(function($translator, $data, $rules, $messages)
{
$messages['active'] = "You need to confirm your email first";
return new AuthValidator($translator, $data, $rules, $messages);
});
It works fine, if i put it in /app/models/User.php file, so the problem is not in the class definition.
I tried to make a separated "/app/validators" directory and put it into composer.json and /app/start/global.php files for autoloading. Still doesn't load, even though I did "artisan dump-autoload" and "composer dump-autoload" both.
Every time I try to use my custom rule "active", Laravel says "Method [validateActive] does not exist.".
I also tried to write "echo '123'; exit;" in the beginning of my file and it didn't work, so the file is obviously just not loaded.
It's especially weird, because other custom models are loaded.
UPD: I use the standard files structure and right now composer.json is not edited.

Answer 1

Did you add a namespace?
This worked for me:
app/models/validators/AuthValidator.php:
namespace app\models\validators;
class AuthValidator
{
function test()
{
dd("message from AuthValidator");
}
}
In controller:
use app\models\validators\AuthValidator;
class WelcomeController extends Controller {
public function __construct(AuthValidator $av)
{
$av->test();
}
}
It autoloaded, I didn't have to add it in composer.json