Laravel 5 Class 'form' not found

I have added "illuminate/html": "5.*" to composer.json and ran "composer update".

  - Installing illuminate/html (v5.0.0)
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I ran this command in the root of the website. I modified the composer.json file in /root/.composer... and in the root of the project and neither have made a difference.

This downloaded the class and it seemed to install. I have added the following to file config/app.php.

    'Illuminate\Html\HtmlServiceProvider',

    'Form'      => 'Illuminate\Html\FormFacade',
    'Html'      => 'Illuminate\Html\HtmlFacade',

I think I have an idea what is wrong, but I don’t know how to fix it. My install is in '/var/www/website'. I have checked the file path and the Html folder does not exist.

"/var/www/website/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Html"

I was able to find the class files, but in a different directory.

"/var/www/website/vendor/illuminate/html"

I manually copied the files over to the main Laravel illuminate/html folder, but this hasn't worked either.

Form isn't included in laravel 5.0 as it was on 4.0, steps to include it:

Begin by installing laravelcollective/html package through Composer. Edit your project's composer.json file to require:

"require": {
    "laravelcollective/html": "~5.0"
}

Next, update composer from the Terminal:

composer update

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Next, add your new provider to the providers array of config/app.php:

'providers' => [
  // ...
  'Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider',
  // ...
],

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Finally, add two class aliases to the aliases array of config/app.php:

'aliases' => [
// ...
  'Form' => 'Collective\Html\FormFacade',
  'Html' => 'Collective\Html\HtmlFacade',
// ...
],

---

At this point, Form should be working

Source

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Update Laravel 5.8 (2019-04-05):

In Laravel 5.8, the providers in the config/app.php can be declared as:

Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider::class,

instead of:

'Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider',

This notation is the same for the aliases.

This may not be the answer you're looking for, but I'd recommend using the now community maintained repository Laravel Collective Forms & HTML as the main repositories have been deprecated.

Laravel Collective is in the process of updating their website. You may view the documentation on GitHub if needed.

Just type the following command in terminal at the project directory and installation is done according the Laravel version:

composer require "laravelcollective/html"

Then add these lines in config/app.php

'providers' => [
    // ...
    Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider::class,
    // ...
],

'aliases' => [
    // ...
   'Form' => Collective\Html\FormFacade::class,
   'Html' => Collective\Html\HtmlFacade::class,
    // ...
],

You can also try running the following commands in Terminal or Command:

1. composer dump-auto or composer dump-auto -o
2. php artisan cache:clear
3. php artisan config:clear

The above worked for me.

There is an update to this for Laravel 5.2. Notice this is a slightly different format from what is indicated above.

Begin by installing this package through Composer. Edit your project's composer.json file to require laravelcollective/html.

"require": {
    "laravelcollective/html": "5.2.*"
}

Next, update Composer from the Terminal:

composer update

Next, add your new provider to the providers array of config/app.php:

  'providers' => [
    // ...
    Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider::class,
    // ...
  ],

Finally, add two class aliases to the aliases array of config/app.php:

  'aliases' => [
    // ...
      'Form' => Collective\Html\FormFacade::class,
      'Html' => Collective\Html\HtmlFacade::class,
    // ...
  ],

After making this update this code worked for me on a new installation of Laravel 5.2:

{!! Form::open(array('url' => 'foo/bar')) !!}
    //
{!! Form::close() !!}

I got this information here: https://laravelcollective.com/docs/5.2/html

Begin by installing this package through Composer. Run the following from the terminal:

composer require "laravelcollective/html":"^5.3.0"

Next, add your new provider to the providers array of config/app.php:

'providers' => [
    // ...
    Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider::class,
    // ...
  ],

Finally, add two class aliases to the aliases array of config/app.php:

'aliases' => [
    // ...
      'Form' => Collective\Html\FormFacade::class,
      'Html' => Collective\Html\HtmlFacade::class,
    // ...
  ],

SRC:

https://laravelcollective.com/docs/5.3/html

In Laravel Version - 4, HTML and Form existed, but not now.

Why:

The only reason is they have collected some user requirements and they want it more lightweight and so they removed it as in the sense that a user can add it manually.

What to do to add HTML & Forms in Laravel 5.2 or 5.3:

For 5.2:

Go to the Laravel Collective site and installation processes have demonstrated their.

Like for 5.2: on the command line, run the command

composer require "laravelcollective/html":"^5.2.0"

Then, in the provider array which is in config/app.php. Add this line at last using a comma(,):

Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider::class,

For using HTML and FORM text we need to alias them in the aliases array of config/app.php. Add the two lines at the last

'Form' => Collective\Html\FormFacade::class,
'Html' => Collective\Html\HtmlFacade::class,

And for 5.3:

Just run the command

composer require "laravelcollective/html":"^5.3.0"

And the rest of the procedure is like 5.2.

Then you can use Laravel Form and other HTML links in your projects. For this, follow this documentation:

5.2: https://laravelcollective.com/docs/5.2/html

5.3: https://laravelcollective.com/docs/5.3/html

Demo Code:

To open a form, open and close a tag:

{!! Form::open(['url' => 'foo/bar']) !!}

{!! Form::close() !!}

And for creating label and input text with a Bootstrap form-control class and other use:

{!! Form::label('title', 'Post Title') !!}
{!! Form::text('title', null, array('class' => 'form-control')) !!}

And for more, use the documentation, https://laravelcollective.com/.

Use Form, not form. The capitalization counts.

I have tried everything, but only this helped:

php artisan route:clear
php artisan cache:clear