Laravel php artisan db:seed leads to "use" statement error

Question

When I try to run php artisan db:seed I get the following error:

The use statement with non-compound name 'DB' has no effect

I have written my own seeder file which I have included below, based on a snippet from the doc. As you can see I am using the use DB shortcut - is this what the problem is?

<?php  use Illuminate\Database\Seeder; use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model; use DB;  class ClassesTableSeeder extends Seeder {     /**      * Run the database seeds.      *      * @return void      */     public function run()     {         DB::table('classes')->delete();         DB::table('classes')->insert([             'class_name'    => 'Test course 111',             'class_id'      => '1',             'location_name' => 'Barnes',             'location_id'   => '1',             'date'          => '2015-06-22',             'month'         => '06/2015',             'start_time'    => '08:00',             'end_time'      => '16:00',             'places'        => '19',             'places_left'   => '19',             'price'         => '155.00'         ]);     } } 

Answer 1

In PHP the use statement is more of an alias than import. So since the ClassesTableSeeder class isn't in a defined namespace, you don't need to import the DB class. As a result you can remove use DB entirely.