How can I add external class in Laravel 5
First you should make sure that this class is in the right namespace. The correct namespace here would be:
namespace App\Libraries;class TestClass {
Then you can just use it like any other class:
$test = new TestClass();echo $test->getInfo();
Don't forget the import at the top of the class you want to use it in:
use App\Libraries\TestClass;
In case you don't have control over the namespace or don't want to change it, add an entry to classmap
in your composer.json
:
"autoload": { "classmap": [ "app/Libraries" ]}
Then run composer dump-autoload
. After that you'll be able to use it the same way as above except with a different (or no) namespace.