Laravel 5 Class 'form' not found

Solution 1:

Form isn't included in laravel 5.0 as it was on 4.0, steps to include it:

Begin by installing laravelcollective/html package through Composer. Edit your project's composer.json file to require:

"require": {
    "laravelcollective/html": "~5.0"
}

Next, update composer from the Terminal:

composer update

Next, add your new provider to the providers array of config/app.php:

'providers' => [
  // ...
  'Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider',
  // ...
],

Finally, add two class aliases to the aliases array of config/app.php:

'aliases' => [
// ...
  'Form' => 'Collective\Html\FormFacade',
  'Html' => 'Collective\Html\HtmlFacade',
// ...
],

At this point, Form should be working

Source

Update Laravel 5.8 (2019-04-05):

In Laravel 5.8, the providers in the config/app.php can be declared as:

Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider::class,

instead of:

'Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider',

This notation is the same for the aliases.

Solution 2:

This may not be the answer you're looking for, but I'd recommend using the now community maintained repository Laravel Collective Forms & HTML as the main repositories have been deprecated.

Laravel Collective is in the process of updating their website. You may view the documentation on GitHub if needed.

Solution 3:

Just type the following command in terminal at the project directory and installation is done according the Laravel version:

composer require "laravelcollective/html"

Then add these lines in config/app.php

'providers' => [
    // ...
    Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider::class,
    // ...
],

'aliases' => [
    // ...
   'Form' => Collective\Html\FormFacade::class,
   'Html' => Collective\Html\HtmlFacade::class,
    // ...
],