Class '\App\User' not found in Laravel when changing the namespace

Question

I am having this error when moving User.php to Models/User.php

local.ERROR: Symfony\\Component\\Debug\\Exception\\FatalThrow

Answer 1

These answers aren't right, you don't need to change the namespace to \App\Models\User. The autoload will load the models folder but the class can still be class User and the namespace should still be App. Is that how it is set up in your file?

namespace App;

class User extends Model {}

Answer 2

I have got the same kind of issue a few days back. So I did this: Run this command

php artisan config:cache 
php artisan config:clear

And it solved my issue.Most of the issues are solved by this. I recommend to try this first and if this doesn't solve your issue then go for other hacks.

Answer 3

If the app config is cached, it may not be able to get the new configuration, because config:cache gives this error before clearing and caching configuration, so just delete the cache manually:

rm bootstrap/cache/config.php

Answer 4

What solved it for me was to change:

            'model' => '{YourAppName}\User',

Answer 5

I finally was able to resolve it by changing this the following code.

 array (
        'driver' => 'eloquent',
        'model' => 'App\\Models\User',
      ),

Answer 6

Reload composer autloaded classes.

composer dump-autoload