Laravel says "Class 'App\Http\Controllers\Lava' not found" about lavacharts

[carlituxman]

if I add the aliases 'Lava' => Khill\Lavacharts\Laravel\LavachartsFacade::class, it works
I'm using in laravel 5.1

[kevinkhill]

You do not need to manually assign the alias, because it is automatically loaded for you 😄

But if you did want to override it, you would need to point it to the Facade, not the ServiceProvider

'aliases' => [
        'Lava' => Khill\Lavacharts\Laravel\LavachartsFacade::class,

[kevinkhill]

I will be including this in the documentation, and depreciate the "auto" loading of the Facade

[kevinkhill]

I am feeling like I should just remove the automatic alias bit, and add to the install docs about adding the alias. Most, if not all composer packages I have seen include in their docs about adding the alias. I don't even remember when I found the automatic alias loading bit of code.

Thoughts?

[kevinkhill]

I have not tested in Laravel 5 yet, so I'm not sure why the Facade isn't working. The service provider should be registering the class alias. Try putting \Lava::methodName to see of that works?

[KevinMarques]

Putting the backslash before Lava::methodName worked.

Thanks!!

[kevinkhill]

No problem. I personally like knowing why things do or don't work, not just
how to fix them, so this is why that worked.

http://php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.basics.php

Happy coding!

[r4lly99]

I have same problem using laravel 5.1 , using sample of demo

$votes = \Lava::DataTable();
$votes->addStringColumn('Food Poll') ->addNumberColumn('Votes') ->addRow(['Tacos', rand(1000,5000)]) ->addRow(['Salad', rand(1000,5000)]) ->addRow(['Pizza', rand(1000,5000)]) ->addRow(['Apples', rand(1000,5000)]) ->addRow(['Fish', rand(1000,5000)]);

and in view

<div id="poll_div"></div> @barchart('Food Poll', 'poll_div')

the output is

FatalThrowableError in DashboardController.php line 30: Fatal error: Class 'Lava' not found

Any help will be appreciate

[kevinkhill]

What version of the package are you using?

[mrvic]

The same problem here:

$popularity = \Lava::DataTable();
results:
Call to undefined method Khill\Lavacharts\Laravel\LavachartsServiceProvider::DataTable()

config\app.php:

'providers' => [
        Khill\Lavacharts\Laravel\LavachartsServiceProvider::class,

'aliases' => [
        'Lava' => Khill\Lavacharts\Laravel\LavachartsServiceProvider::class,

composer show

khill/lavacharts           3.0.6   PHP wrapper library for the Google Chart API
laravel/framework      v5.3.30 The Laravel Framework.

[mrvic]

Thank you Kevin it works now. But assigning the alias is not optional in Laravel 5.3.30 I had to enter it because it is not auto assigned. Tried multiple times with or without, also tried:

composer dump-autoload
artisan config:clear
artisan clear-compiled

VERSION:

$ php artisan --version
Laravel Framework version 5.3.30

[Bogstag]

Some more information if needed. Error was generated when upgrading from Laravel 5.3.29 to 5.4.11 and Lavacharts from 3.0.4 to 3.0.6.

This gets me an error:
app.php:
'providers' => [ "Khill\Lavacharts\Laravel\LavachartsServiceProvider",

Row 59 in Charts.php file:
$chart = \Lava::DataTable();

Error in laravel:
FatalThrowableError in Charts.php line 59: Class 'Lava' not found

But adding:
'aliases' => [ 'Lava' => Khill\Lavacharts\Laravel\LavachartsFacade::class,
to app.php resolves the problem.

Currently running:
`khill/lavacharts 3.0.6

laravel/framework v5.4.11

PHP 7.0.13`

[kevinkhill]

I will try and recreate this environment and see whats up

[sahibkhan]

'aliases' => [
'Lava' => Khill\Lavacharts\Laravel\LavachartsFacade::class,

its working fine