Laravel: The use statement with non-compound name 'Cache' has no effect [duplicate]

Question

I have centos7 php56 laravel 5 and memcached but when try use Cache in routes.php I get:

ErrorException in routes.php line 3:
The use statement with non-compound name 'Cache' has no effect

router.php

<?php

use Cache;
...

Answer 1

Just remove use Cache; from your routes.php. It is not needed there as file itself is not associated with specific namespace. Once you remove it you will not see that warning again.

Answer 2

That is because you are already in the global namespace. So when you do something like use Cache;, you are saying "when I say Cache, I mean \Cache". Because you already are in the global namespace, that statement has no effect. That's what the warning is about.