[php] Laravel - Model Class not found

I was having the same "Class [class name] not found" error message, but it wasn't a namespace issue. All my namespaces were set up correctly. I even tried composer dump-autoload and it didn't help me.

Surprisingly (to me) I then did composer dump-autoload -o which according to Composer's help, "optimizes PSR0 and PSR4 packages to be loaded with classmaps too, good for production." Somehow doing it that way got composer to behave and include the class correctly in the autoload_classmap.php file.