Laravel - Class "App\Http\Controllers\Mail" not found - Solved

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A few days ago I was working on my laravel app and I simply sending email using Mail facade. When I run the project then I found 'Class "App\Http\Controllers\Mail" not found' error. you can see bellow screenshot as well.

Issue:

After some research, I found that If you are using the "Mail" class in Controller, Middleware, or blade file then you must have used facade on top.

so let's see bellow solution and example code here:

Solution:

You must need to add "use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;" on top of controller, middleware, command, event or blade files. Let's see bellow:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;

Example:

You can see controller file code, how to use it.

<?php
    
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
    
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\Order;
use App\Mail\OrderShipped;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;
    
class UserController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function index(Request $request)
    {
        $order = Order::findOrFail($request->order_id);
  
        Mail::to($request->user())->send(new OrderShipped($order));
          
        return view('users');
    }
}

I hope it can help you...