"Class 'App\Http\Controllers\getID3' not found" when trying to include a PHP file in Laravel 5

Question

I'm using getid3 library with a Laravel project. I created a folder called "includes" in the app/ directory and inside it a folder called getid3 which contains a bunch of php files, I included the getid3.php file which resides in that directory. Here is the file content along with the library on Github:- https://github.com/JamesHeinrich/getID3/blob/master/getid3/getid3.php

In the controller, when I try to instantiate the getID3 class which is defined in that file, I get following error:-

FatalErrorException in ApiV1.php line 217:
Class 'App\Http\Controllers\getID3' not found

Here is the code block in the controller in which I'm trying to instantiate the class

ob_start();
if ($fp_output = fopen($FilenameOut, 'wb')) {

    ob_end_clean();
    // Initialize getID3 engine
    $getID3 = new  \getID3;
    foreach ($FilenamesIn as $nextinputfilename) {

        $CurrentFileInfo = $getID3->analyze($nextinputfilename);
        if ($CurrentFileInfo['fileformat'] == 'mp3') {

How to solve this error ?

Answer 1

Your class has been defined in the root namespace, you need to add a \ before the class name. Otherwise php will think it is in the same namespace as the current class, currently App\Http\Controllers.

You should do something like this:

$id3 = new \getID3;