Getting error "Target Class Not Found" while trying to use old way of calling controllers-CodePudding

I'm using Laravel 8 and I wanted to use the old way of calling controller and routes in web.php.

So instead of saying this:

Route::get('/home', [App\Http\Controllers\HomeController::class, 'index'])->name('home');

I would call the Controller like this:

Route::get('/home', 'HomeController@index')->name('home');

So I added this to AppServiceProvider.php:

public function boot()
    {
        Route::prefix('web')
            ->middleware('web')
            ->namespace('App\Http\Controllers') // <---------
            ->group(base_path('routes/web.php'));
    }

But it doesn't seem to be working because I'm getting this error:

Target class [HomeController] does not exist.

So how can I call my Controller at web.php like the old style which was used in Laravel 5 versions?

CodePudding user response：

As per my knowledge laravel 8 is not overriding that way of declaring routes. Example code that works fine

Route::group(
[
    'prefix' => 'db-notifications',
    'as' => 'notification.',
    'middleware' => 'auth'
],
function () {
    Route::get('/send-notification', 'NotificationsController@SendTestMail'])
   ->name('send');
})

CodePudding user response：

you should add this code protected $namespace = 'App\\Http\\Controllers'; in this file RouteServiceProvider.php