Laravel 5.1 nested controller class not found

Question

The Laravel documentation clearly describes how to change your routes if you nest your controllers in folders. It seems REALLY simple, and yet I'm still getting an error. Here's the error:

"Class App\Http\Controllers\Input\InputController does not exist"

^That path looks 100% correct to me. What gives?

File Structure:
-Controllers
--Auth
--Input
---InputController.php

Routes:

Route::get('input', 'Input\InputController@getInput');  

InputController:

<?php namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Response;

class InputController extends Controller
{
    public function getInput()
    {
        return response()->view('1_input.input_form');
    }
}

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

Change Controller namespace from

namespace App\Http\Controllers

to

namespace App\Http\Controllers\Input

Answer 2

1. namespace needs to be changed to the directory your controller is in 'App\Http\Input'

2. You need to pull in Controller with use App\Http\Controllers\Contoller so that you can extend it.

   <?php
   
    namespace App\Http\Controllers\Input;
    use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;  // need Controller to extend  
   
    use Illuminate\Http\Response;
   
    class InputController extends Controller
    {
        public function getInput()
        {
          return response()->view('1_input.input_form');
        }
    }