Laravel Debugbar messages not showing

Question

L5.0

I have the DebugBar installed, and it's working and showing at the bottom of the screen. But I'm having trouble figuring out how to send messages to the console to show up under "Messages"

I've tried the following in my controllers...

use DebugBar\DebugBar;
....
DebugBar::addMessage('This is a message');

or even

use DebugBar\DebugBar;
....
DebugBar::info('this is info');

but I'm getting the following error.

Call to undefined method DebugBar\DebugBar::info()

my app.php has the following.

'providers' => [
.....
'Barryvdh\Debugbar\ServiceProvider',
....


'aliases' => [ 
....
'DebugBar'  => 'Barryvdh\Debugbar\Facade',

I'm still a Laravel newbie, so not sure where to check next. I've checked the documentation on both http://phpdebugbar.com/docs/ and https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-debugbar but I think I'm just missing something.

Answer 1

if you want to show DebugBar this this process :

'providers' => [
    ...
    Barryvdh\Debugbar\ServiceProvider::class,
]

then

'aliases' => [
    ...
    'DebugBar' => Barryvdh\Debugbar\Facade::class,
]

then in your controller write

app('debugbar')->error('Watch out..');

now refresh browser then see the message enjoy