How to fix "Uncaught ReflectionException: Class log does not exist"?

Question

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught ReflectionException: Class log does not exist in var/www/blog/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:734
Stack trace:

#0 /var/www/blog/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php(734): ReflectionClass->__construct('log')

#1 /var/www/blog/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php(629): Illuminate\Container\Container->build('log', Array)

#2 /var/www/blog/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Application.php(697): Illuminate\Container\Container->make('log', Array)

#3 /var/www/blog/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php(849): Illuminate\Foundation\Application->make('log')

#4 /var/www/blog/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php(804): Illuminate\Container\Container->resolveClass(Object(ReflectionParameter))

#5 /var/www/blog/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php(774): Illuminate\Container\Container->getDependencies(Array, Array)

#6 /var/www/blog/vendor/ in /var/www/blog/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php on line 734

Answer 1

In your code, you should be adding Log to your namespaces, as per @BobB comment.

For example in a controller it could be.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controller;

use Log;
...

or call Log with a global namespace

\Log::

I'd also suggest reading about namespaces in PHP.

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