Laravel 5: DB Seed class not found

Question

I have this DatabaseSeeder.php:

Answer 1

I ran into the similar error but I was using DB facade DB::table rather than model. I am posting the answer just in case somebody has similar issues.

The seeder file had namespace namespace Database\Seeders; and laravel was trying to look for DB class inside the namespace and hence the error appeared.

Class 'Database\Seeders\DB' not found.

Resolutions:

• Remove the namespace and run composer dump-autoload
• OR Add a backslash to \DB::table('stock_categories')->([ ... ]); so Laravel starts looking the DB facade from root (not from the namespace specified)

Eg,

\DB::table('MemberInvitation')->insert( [
         'id' => 'BlahBlah' ,//com_create_guid(),
         'partner_id' => 1,
         'fisrt_name' => 'Thats',
         'last_name' => 'Me',
         'email' => 'me@mymail.com',
         'mobile_phone' => '444-342-4234',
         'created_at' => new DateTime
    ] );