Laravel 4 Namespaces routes and namespaces in controllers

Question

I was trying to order my controllers in Laravel 4 and adding them some nice namespaces

So i wanted routes like this admin/scholar-groups And i wanted the controller to be in a subfolder called 'admin'

So I have a route file like this:

   //Admin Routes
Route::group(array('namespace' => 'admin'), function()
{
  Route::group(array('prefix' => 'admin'), function()
  {
    # Scholar Groups Controller
    Route::group(['before' => 'auth|adminGroup'], function()
    {
      Route::resource('scholar-groups', 'ScholarGroupController');
    });

  });
});

Then I added a namespace to my scholarGroupController which is in a subfolder named 'admin'

    <?php namespace admin;
class ScholarGroupController extends \BaseController {

    /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     * GET /scholargroup
     *
     * @return Response
     */
    public function index()
    {
        $scholarGroups = ScholarGroup::paginate(10);
        return View::make('scholar_groups.index',compact('scholarGroups'));
    }

But whenever I try to access to my index action in Controller I get this error.

Class 'admin\ScholarGroup' not found

So the namespaces is affecting my model namespace in the following line

$scholarGroups = ScholarGroup::paginate(10);

How do I avoid the namespace affecting this model class namespace?

Answer 1

Your controller is in the admin namespace, and referring to other classes from there will be relative to that namespace.

So you need to refer to your model with a preceding backslash (just like you did with BaseController) like this:

<?php namespace admin;

class ScholarGroupController extends \BaseController
{
    public function index()
    {
        $scholarGroups = \ScholarGroup::paginate(10);

        return View::make('scholar_groups.index',compact('scholarGroups'));
    }
}

or import it above the class declaration like this:

<?php namespace admin;

use ScholarGroup;

class ScholarGroupController extends \BaseController
{
    public function index()
    {
        $scholarGroups = ScholarGroup::paginate(10);

        return View::make('scholar_groups.index',compact('scholarGroups'));
    }
}

Also, you don't need to do Route::group twice. you can do this:

Route::group(array('prefix' => 'admin', 'namespace' => 'admin'), function() {
    // . . .
});