Laravel controller doesn't exist - php

Question

Ok, so I haven't had this issue in a while, but I've done most the options I can to resolve this and have read other people's posts. I'm at a lost right now.
After creating the controller, I did the "php ./composer.phar dump-autoload" command, saying it generated successfully, and it's still saying the controller doesn't exist. There are already 3 other controllers in the folder it's in, and each one of those works, it's just this controller that's having the problem.
Code to Controller: (/apps/controllers/api/apiBulkController.php)
class apiBulkController extends BaseController {
private $error;
public function __construct()
{
// Set default values
$this->error = 'false';
}
public function create()
{
$bulk = array();
// Authenticate the user using the api
if (!isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'])) {
$this->authenticate();
} else {
$auth = User::where('username', $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'])->first();
// Check to see if the user is valid
if(isset($auth->authkey) && $auth->authkey == $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'])
{
$req = Request::get();
$bulk = new Bulk;
// Add Columns by example below
$bulk->save();
//ex. $Bulk->Name = Request::get(''); $object->column_name = Request;
// Return JSON data
return Response::json(array(
'error' => $this->error
));
}
else
{
echo $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'].": Your hash seems to be incorrect.";
}
}
}
public function authenticate()
{
header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="User Authentication (Username / Hash)"');
header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');
echo "You must enter a valid Login ID and Hash to access this resource\n";
exit;
}
}

Answer 1

You should probably add
namespace api;
at the beginning of your controller
and run controller also using your namespace before class name, for example in Route api\apiBulkController#create instead of apiBulkController#create.
If error changes, you should then alter your class adding namespaces or uses to other classes for example instead of extends BaseController should be extends \BaseController and so on