Laravel 5 - artisan seed ReflectionException Class SongsTableSeeder does not exist

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When I run php artisan db seed I am getting the following error     ReflectionException  Class SongsTableSeeder does not exist   What is going on   My DatabaseSeeder class    lt  php  use Illuminate Database Seeder  use Illuminate Database Eloquent Model   class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder                   Run the database seeds                 return void             public function run                 Model  unguard              this- gt call  SongsTableSeeder               My SongsTableSeeder class    lt  php     Composer   fzaninotto faker    v1 4 0  use Faker Factory as Faker  use Illuminate Database Seeder  use DB   class SongsTableSeeder extends Seeder        public function run                  faker   Faker  create             songs               foreach range 1  10  as  index                         songs       title    gt   faker- gt words rand 1 4                        DB  table  songs  - gt insert  songs

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I had the same  reflection exception  error  The solution was to copy the class file to the server  from dev  for me  dumb mistake  but given how many files we deal with its easy to forget to copy them over to the server every time

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I have used only SINGLE FILE with TWO classes in it following    use Illuminate Database Seeder  use Illuminate Database Eloquent Model  use App Lesson   use Faker Factory as Faker   class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder           Run the database seeds         return void     public function run           Lesson  truncate         Model  unguard          this- gt call  LessonsTableSeeder            class LessonsTableSeeder extends Seeder           Run the database seeds         return void     public function run           faker   Faker  create         foreach range 1 30  as  index             Lesson  create   title    gt   faker- gt sentence 5    body    gt   faker- gt paragraph 4

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i got  ReflectionException  Class Seeder does not exist too and when i use composer dump-autoload  i got an error preg match    JIT compilation failed  no more memory when i run it    What i did is that i change  pcre jit 1 to pcre jit Off in php ini  You can find the path by using php --ini in your terminal   I am using mac with php 7 3  Hope that help any of you guys out there

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If our CustomTableSeeder is in same directory with DatabaseSeeder we should use like below    this- gt call  database seeds CustomTableSeeder      in our DatabaseSeeder File  then another error will be thrown that says   DB Class not found  then we should add our DB facade to our CustomTableSeeder File like below    use Illuminate Support Facades DB    it worked for me

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If you migrated to Laravel 8  you have to add a namespace to the seeders class   lt  php  namespace Database Seeders        Next  in your composer json file  remove classmap block from the autoload section and add the new namespaced class directory mappings   quot autoload quot          quot psr-4 quot              quot App   quot    quot app  quot            quot Database  Seeders   quot    quot database seeds  quot            An finally  do a composer dump-autoload  For more information  https   laravel com docs 8 x upgrade seeder-factory-namespaces

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You need to put SongsTableSeeder into file SongsTableSeeder php in the same directory where you have your DatabaseSeeder php file   And you need to run in your console   composer dump-autoload   to generate new class map and then run   php artisan db seed   I ve just tested it  It is working without a problem in Laravel 5

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SongsTableSeeder php should be in database seeds directory   Console command steps   composer dump-autoload   and then   php artisan cache clear   and then   php artisan optimize   and then   php artisan db seed   or   php artisan db seed --class SongsTableSeeder

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If you have copied the seeders files from any other project then you need to run the artisan command php artisan db seed otherwise it is fine

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File SongsTableSeeder php should be in database seeds directory or in its subdirectory   You need to run   composer dump-autoload   and then   php artisan db seed   or   php artisan db seed --class SongsTableSeeder

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Do not forgot that the composer dump-autoload works in relation with the autoload     classmap section of composer json  Take care about that if you need to change seeders directory or use multiple directories to store seeders    autoload          classmap            database seeds          database factories

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You probably specify the  php extension and It don t found your class   What I was doing    php artisan db seed --class RolesPermissionsTableSeeder php   What solved my problem   What I was doing    php artisan db seed --class RolesPermissionsTableSeeder

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I m running the very latest Laravel 5 dev release  and if you ve changed the namespace you ll need to call your seed class like this    this- gt call   todoparrot TodolistTableSeeder      Obviously you ll need to replace todoparrot with your designated namespace  Otherwise I receive the same error indicated in the original question

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I solved it by doing this    Copy the file content  Remove file  Run command  php artisan make seeder   Copy the file content back in this file    This happened because I made a change in the filename  I don t know why it didn t work after the change

[laravel] Laravel 5 - artisan seed [ReflectionException] Class SongsTableSeeder does not exist

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