Laravel class not found with one-to-many

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I'm trying to return an object `Contract` and all of it's related `Project`. I can return all of the `Contract`s but when I try to get the contract's `Project`, I get a "Class 'EstimateProject' not found" error. I've run `composer dump-autoload` to reload the class mappings, but I still get the error. Any ideas? Here's my class setup: EDIT: Just wanted to add that `LaravelBook\Ardent\Ardent\` is an extension of Laravel's Model.php. It adds validation to model on the `Save` function. I've made Ardent extend another plugin I've added that is a MongoDB version of the Eloquent ORM. EstimateContract.php ``` <?php namespace Test\Tools; use LaravelBook\Ardent\Ardent; class EstimateContract extends Ardent { // This sets the value on the Mongodb plugin's '$collection' protected $collection = 'Contracts'; public function projects() { return $this->hasMany('EstimateProject', 'contractId'); } } ``` EstimateProject.php ``` <?php namespace Test\Tools; use LaravelBook\Ardent\Ardent; class EstimatePr…

Accepted Answer

In order for this to work, I needed to fully qualify the EstimateProject string in my EstimateContract model.

The solution was to change it from:

```
return $this->hasMany('EstimateProject', 'contractId'); 
```

to

```
return $this->hasMany('\Test\Tools\EstimateProject', 'contractId');
```

Laravel class not found with one-to-many

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