Laravel 5 Class 'form' not found

Question

I have added "illuminate/html": "5.*" to composer.json and ran "composer update".

  - Installing illuminate/html (v5.0.0)
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I ran this command in the root of the website. I modified the composer.json file in /root/.composer... and in the root of the project and neither have made a difference.

This downloaded the class and it seemed to install. I have added the following to file config/app.php.

    'Illuminate\Html\HtmlServiceProvider',

    'Form'      => 'Illuminate\Html\FormFacade',
    'Html'      => 'Illuminate\Html\HtmlFacade',

I think I have an idea what is wrong, but I don’t know how to fix it. My install is in '/var/www/website'. I have checked the file path and the Html folder does not exist.

"/var/www/website/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Html"

I was able to find the class files, but in a different directory.

"/var/www/website/vendor/illuminate/html"

I manually copied the files over to the main Laravel illuminate/html folder, but this hasn't worked either.

Answer 1

Form isn't included in laravel 5.0 as it was on 4.0, steps to include it:

Begin by installing laravelcollective/html package through Composer. Edit your project's composer.json file to require:

"require": {
    "laravelcollective/html": "~5.0"
}

Next, update composer from the Terminal:

composer update

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Next, add your new provider to the providers array of config/app.php:

'providers' => [
  // ...
  'Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider',
  // ...
],

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Finally, add two class aliases to the aliases array of config/app.php:

'aliases' => [
// ...
  'Form' => 'Collective\Html\FormFacade',
  'Html' => 'Collective\Html\HtmlFacade',
// ...
],

---

At this point, Form should be working

Source

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Update Laravel 5.8 (2019-04-05):

In Laravel 5.8, the providers in the config/app.php can be declared as:

Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider::class,

instead of:

'Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider',

This notation is the same for the aliases.

Answer 2

This may not be the answer you're looking for, but I'd recommend using the now community maintained repository Laravel Collective Forms & HTML as the main repositories have been deprecated.

Laravel Collective is in the process of updating their website. You may view the documentation on GitHub if needed.

Answer 3

Just type the following command in terminal at the project directory and installation is done according the Laravel version:

composer require "laravelcollective/html"

Then add these lines in config/app.php

'providers' => [
    // ...
    Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider::class,
    // ...
],

'aliases' => [
    // ...
   'Form' => Collective\Html\FormFacade::class,
   'Html' => Collective\Html\HtmlFacade::class,
    // ...
],