Class 'Controllers\Admin\Datatables' not found

[bakerstreetsystems]

I admit that I am new to Laravel and it might just be something simple and I thank you in advance for your help.

I started off with the Laravel4 Started Kit (https://github.com/brunogaspar/laravel4-starter-kit) for a brand new project, and the only other thing I did was download this package to see if i could make it work. I followed the install directions to the T for both the starter kit and for this package. It seemed like everything installed fine.

But then I go to try out a Datatable. I tried editing the controllers/admin/BlogsController.php by placing something similar to the following in the getIndex function:

$posts = Post::select(array('posts.id','posts.title','posts.created_at')); return Datatables::of($posts)->make();

The problem is that when I run the page again with Datatables, I get the following error:

Class 'Controllers\Admin\Datatables' not found

Any suggestions? Why can't the starter kit understand where to look for the Datatables class? Thanks.

[yajra]

Have you added Datatables on your app config file? See link below for installation of the package.

https://github.com/bllim/laravel4-datatables-package#installation

[bakerstreetsystems]

I think I followed the instructions... here is what I have:

'providers' => array(

    'Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\ArtisanServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Auth\AuthServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Cache\CacheServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\CommandCreatorServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Session\CommandsServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\ComposerServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Routing\ControllerServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Cookie\CookieServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Database\DatabaseServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Encryption\EncryptionServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Filesystem\FilesystemServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Hashing\HashServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Html\HtmlServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\KeyGeneratorServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Log\LogServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Mail\MailServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\MaintenanceServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Database\MigrationServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\OptimizeServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Pagination\PaginationServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\PublisherServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Queue\QueueServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Redis\RedisServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Auth\Reminders\ReminderServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\RouteListServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Database\SeedServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\ServerServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Session\SessionServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\TinkerServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Translation\TranslationServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Validation\ValidationServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\View\ViewServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Workbench\WorkbenchServiceProvider',

    'Cartalyst\Sentry\SentryServiceProvider',
    'Bllim\Datatables\DatatablesServiceProvider',

),

'aliases' => array(

    'App'             => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\App',
    'Artisan'         => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Artisan',
    'Auth'            => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth',
    'Blade'           => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Blade',
    'Cache'           => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cache',
    'ClassLoader'     => 'Illuminate\Support\ClassLoader',
    'Config'          => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Config',
    'Controller'      => 'Illuminate\Routing\Controllers\Controller',
    'Cookie'          => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cookie',
    'Crypt'           => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Crypt',
    'DB'              => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB',
    'Eloquent'        => 'Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model',
    'Event'           => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Event',
    'File'            => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\File',
    'Form'            => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Form',
    'Hash'            => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Hash',
    'HTML'            => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\HTML',
    'Input'           => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Input',
    'Lang'            => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Lang',
    'Log'             => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log',
    'Mail'            => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail',
    'Paginator'       => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Paginator',
    'Password'        => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Password',
    'Queue'           => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Queue',
    'Redirect'        => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redirect',
    'Redis'           => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redis',
    'Request'         => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Request',
    'Response'        => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Response',
    'Route'           => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route',
    'Schema'          => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema',
    'Seeder'          => 'Illuminate\Database\Seeder',
    'Session'         => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Session',
    'Str'             => 'Illuminate\Support\Str',
    'URL'             => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\URL',
    'Validator'       => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Validator',
    'View'            => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\View',

    'Sentry'          => 'Cartalyst\Sentry\Facades\Laravel\Sentry',
    'Datatables'      => 'Bllim\Datatables\Datatables',

),

and I did the 'php artisan config:publish bllim/datatables' without any errors.

[yajra]

I see, the starter kit uses namespace. Add the code below on your controller and try again.

use Datatables;

[bakerstreetsystems]

That seemed to do the trick! Thanks!

Just to clarify for anyone with the same problem, there is a place to specify which classes to use usually at the very top of the controller. In this case, I was editing the BlogsController in the controllers/admin folder and I pasted 'use Datatables;' right under the 'use View;'