Laravel 5 Class 'form' not found

Question

I have added \"illuminate/html\": \"5.*\" to composer.json and ran \"composer update\".

  - Installing illuminate/html (v5.0.0)
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Answer 1

There is an update to this for Laravel 5.2. Notice this is a slightly different format from what is indicated above.

Begin by installing this package through Composer. Edit your project's composer.json file to require laravelcollective/html.

"require": {
    "laravelcollective/html": "5.2.*"
}

Next, update Composer from the Terminal:

composer update

Next, add your new provider to the providers array of config/app.php:

  'providers' => [
    // ...
    Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider::class,
    // ...
  ],

Finally, add two class aliases to the aliases array of config/app.php:

  'aliases' => [
    // ...
      'Form' => Collective\Html\FormFacade::class,
      'Html' => Collective\Html\HtmlFacade::class,
    // ...
  ],

After making this update this code worked for me on a new installation of Laravel 5.2:

{!! Form::open(array('url' => 'foo/bar')) !!}
    //
{!! Form::close() !!}

I got this information here: https://laravelcollective.com/docs/5.2/html