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PHP Laravel Basics MVC (View) Creating a Blade

Dario Preglej
Dario Preglej
9,771 Points
Posted by Dario Preglej
Dario Preglej
9,771 Points

Target class does not exist

I got error: target class does not exist, and i spent few hours trying to look for every character in my code as i tough i wrote something wrong. Then i google it and i found out that in Laravel 8 you need to write route differently, like this:

Route::get('/', 'App\Http\Controllers\AppController@index');

This solve my problem.

PABLO MORICZ DE TECSO
PABLO MORICZ DE TECSO
601 Points

Hello, also for this problem and in case you do want to keep using Laravel 8 for whatever reason, this guy explains how to reverse the changes done in Laravel 8, for it to behave like Laravel 6 and 7 in that regard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfE1tnMG6fE

Also there is this stack Overflow article talking about this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63807930/target-class-controller-does-not-exist-laravel-8

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there, Dario Preglej! Yes, that's correct. Laravel 8 changes the namespacing somewhat. I updated the Teacher's Notes to include instructions on how to install Laravel 6 when taking this course to avoid this confusion in the future. Let's hope that between the Teacher's Notes and your answer that the confusion is significantly lessened.

To be clear, Laravel 6 is the latest LTS (long-term support) version of Laravel and should be used both for this course and the Laravel API course :smiley:

Thanks for the information regarding Laravel 8 changes! :sparkles: