Laravel 5 - Change model file location

Question

I moved over to Laravel 5 from Laravel 4. One major change I'm seeing is that all model files must be placed under the /app directory.

How do I configure my laravel 5 installation so that I can place my model files under /app/Models and also use the models in the usual FooModel::with(...) (for example) way?

Answer 1

you just need to namespace the models accordingly.

namespace App\Models\User

and wherever you may need to use them just reference them with the correct namespace.

use App\Models\User

Answer 2

Add the folder to the composer.json classmap:

"autoload": {
    "classmap": [
        "database",
        "app/Models"
    ]
}