Accessing package controllers in Laravel 4

Question

I have created a package following the \"Creating a Package\" instructions in the Laravel 4 documentation. After creating the package I have created a \"controllers\" folder

Answer 1

You may try edit your Vendor/Package/composer.json and insert the controllers dir to autoload/classmap:

....
"autoload": {
    "classmap": [
        "src/migrations",
        "src/controllers",
        "src/models"
    ],
    "psr-0": {
        "Package\\Controller": "src/"
    }
}
....

After that, open your terminal and from your package root dir do a composer dump-autoload

Works for me...

Answer 2

have a look into this git article might be of help https://github.com/jaiwalker/setup-laravel4-package

Answer 3

The mistake was including the controllers path in the route. I had the following:

Route::get('/package', 'Vendor\Package\Controllers\HomeController@showWelcome');

The correct usage is:

Route::get('/package', 'Vendor\Package\HomeController@showWelcome');

With the namespace included in the controller:

namespace Vendor\Package;

Controller should extend illuminate:

\Illuminate\Routing\Controllers\Controller

Still can't use the package name (eg: Package::HomeController@showWelcome), but I can using the namespace. yay.

Problem solved.