Laravel 5 Class 'App\Http\Controllers\File' not found

Question

i get the following error:

Class 'App\Http\Controllers\File' not found

when using in laravel 5 Controller:

$files = File::files( $this->csvDir );

I have to add the Filesystem to composer.json and config/app.php. Somehow I use a misconfiguration.

That's what I changed:

composer.json

    "require": {
        "laravel/framework": "5.0.*", 
        "illuminate/html": "5.*",
        "illuminate/filesystem": "5.*"  /* my try to repo */
    },

config/app.php

    'providers' => [

    // [...] 
    // jerik 2015-04-17: get html Forms
    // http://laravel.io/forum/09-20-2014-html-form-class-not-found-in-laravel-5
    'Illuminate\Html\HtmlServiceProvider', 
    'Illuminate\Filesystem\FilesystemServiceProvider', // try to add file

When I run composer update, it runs well, but there is no ouput that the Filesystem is downloaded. So my configuration is wrong, but I do not know the correct way.

Any suggestions or tips?

instead of `$files = File::files( $this->csvDir );` try `$files = \File::files( $this->csvDir );` — Fabio Antunes, Apr 17 '15 at 16:42

score 77 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 17 '15 at 16:44

77

First you shoud consider using built-in Storage facade. You don't need to include manually Filesystem unless you use S3 or Rackspace because it's already included by default - look at Filesystem in Laravel 5 documentation.

It also seems, that you should import File so try

use File;

or \File to solve the issue because now you are using File from current namespace and probably File is not defined in App\Http\Controllers namespace

answered Apr 17 '15 at 16:44

Marcin Nabiałek

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I wish Laravel/artisan automatically added "use App\[Model];" to the top of the controller when it created it. – Andrew Koper Mar 20 '18 at 00:19
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Undefined symbol 'File'.intelephense(1002) – saber tabatabaee yazdi Dec 03 '19 at 16:05
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@sabertabatabaeeyazdi, did you work out how to get rid of that error message in VSCode? I get the same, even though the code runs fine. – monkeyhybrid Dec 10 '19 at 21:46
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@sabertabatabaeeyazdi Looks like new behaviour / bug introduced in recent version of Intellephense. See https://stackoverflow.com/q/59149877/1467680 – monkeyhybrid Dec 10 '19 at 21:53

Laravel 5 Class 'App\Http\Controllers\File' not found

composer.json

config/app.php

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