How to use controller from vendor in laravel routes.php file?

Question

I have this in routes.php :

Route::post('myFunction', ['uses' => 'MyPackage\MyController@updateMeta']);

And I get this error :

ReflectionException in Route.php line 280:
Class App\Http\Controllers\MyPackage\MyController does not exist

Any idea how to use controller from vendor in routes.php ?

Answer 1

Place another \\ in front of the namespace. By default, Laravel will search for controllers in App\\Http\\Controllers\\ . By placing another \\ in front you tell Laravel to start searching in the root namespace.

Route::post('myFunction', ['uses' => '\MyPackage\MyController@updateMeta']);

Answer 2

You should add '\\' in the beginning of the controller namespace:

By default, routes.php assumes your controller is in 'App\\Http\\Controllers' namespace but adding '\\' will cause it to look in the root namespace.

Route::get('/vendor-control', '\Vendor1\Vendormanager\controllers\Vendor1Controller@view');