Laravel cannot find self defined service providers

Question

I'm using Laravel for my project, I created a service provider and it's located in app/services/ToolboxServiceProvider.php, and I added

'providers' => array(
    ....
    'services\ToolboxServiceProvider',
);

in my app.php config file. Now when loading the app, it says the service provider cannot find, I know that something's wrong with my path setting in that providers array, question is: how to make it right? Thanks in advance.

{
"name": "laravel/laravel",
"description": "The Laravel Framework.",
"keywords": ["framework", "laravel"],
"license": "MIT",
"require": {
    "laravel/framework": "4.2.*"
},
"autoload": {
    "classmap": [
        "app/commands",
        "app/controllers",
        "app/models",
        "app/database/migrations",
        "app/database/seeds",
        "app/tests/TestCase.php"
    ]
},
"scripts": {
    "post-install-cmd": [
        "php artisan clear-compiled",
        "php artisan optimize"
    ],
    "post-update-cmd": [
        "php artisan clear-compiled",
        "php artisan optimize"
    ],
    "post-create-project-cmd": [
        "php artisan key:generate"
    ]
},
"config": {
    "preferred-install": "dist"
},
"minimum-stability": "stable"

}

Answer 1

You should add into autoload => classmap section of your composer.json:

"app/services",

so it should look like:

"autoload": {
    "classmap": [
        "app/commands",
        "app/controllers",
        "app/models",
        "app/database/migrations",
        "app/database/seeds",
        "app/tests/TestCase.php",
        "app/services",
    ]
},

In your provider file, at the beginning you should have:

<?php namespace services;

(in lower case).

And after those changes you should run:

composer dump-autoload

to rebuild classmap