[Solved] Class ‘App\Http\Controllers\User’ not found (in UserController.php) Laravel

I’ve recently embarked on a journey to learn Laravel and while going through a tutorial, I encountered this error when trying to create a new user on UserController.php. I’m currently using Laravel ver 8.15.0. Many suggested adding ‘use App\User;’ however, it still gave me the same error. Here’s the code I was trying to run:

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
class UserController extends Controller {
   public function index(){
      $user = new User(); //This was giving the error
      dd($user);
   }
}

To resolve this error, it was more straightforward than expected.

For Laravel 8.x, add into UserController.php:

use App\Models\User;

For older versions:

use App\User;

Why ‘use App\User;’ did not work was because, in User.php, the namespace is App\Models instead of App.

User.php namespace (Laravel 8.15)

Your UserController.php should look something like this and the error should be resolved:

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\User; // Add here
class UserController extends Controller {
   public function index(){
      $user = new User(); 
      dd($user);
   }
}

Hope this helped!