Laravel Class Socialite not found

Question

What I did:

• Added "laravel/socialite": "~2.0" to composer.json
• Run composer update
• Added provider 'Laravel\Socialite\SocialiteServiceProvider' to app.php
• Added alias 'Socialite' => 'Laravel\Socialite\Facades\Socialite' to app.php

After all this steps I created a new Controller Class which looks like that:

<?php namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Http\Requests;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class AuthController extends Controller {

    public function login()
    {                  
        return \Socialite::with('facebook')->redirect();
    }

}

But i still got this error: PHP Fatal error: Class '\Socialite'

Edit
composer dump-autoload fixed probably the error, but it's still not working correctly.

Answer 1

'Socialite' => 'Laravel\Socialite\Facades\Socialite' is a mistake that I did too.

It must be declared as 'Socialite' => Laravel\Socialite\Facades\Socialite::class

Answer 2

Check if you have set your alias as "Socialize" as in the Socialite docs says to do this way:

'Socialize' => 'Laravel\Socialite\Facades\Socialite',

It as very confusing to me as well

Answer 3

First of all use ::class, on your config/app.php

'Socialite' => Laravel\Socialite\Facades\Socialite::class,

Second, call the class in your controller

use Socialite;

Third, try clear the config

php artisan config:clear

And lastly check the redirect URL if its working

http://yoursite.com/your_redirect

Answer 4

In your Controllers file add

use Laravel\Socialite\Facades\Socialite;

Answer 5

Just below use Illuminate\Http\Request; in your controller add use Socialize;

Answer 6

I had the same issue. Clearing the config cache helped me in this situation:

php artisan config:clear