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.ERROR: ReflectionException: Class App\Http\Controller$ Stack trace:

I’ve just deployed my laravel app on Digitalocean. My upload image and the send email which worked perfectly fine on my local server doesn’t work on the server. After debugging, I realized the problem is with this two lines facades.

Mail::send('emails.contact', $data, ....
Image::make($image);

$image is the image gotten from the post request.

My folder has a write permission for the web group. so I’m sure it isn’t a permission problem. Besides, I have commented the save line out and I am still getting the error. Please help. Thanks. Here is my controller code

$images = $request->file('images');
$imageEmpty = array_filter($images);

if(!(empty($imageEmpty))){
    //$images = $request->file('images');
    $filePath = 'img/posts/'.$post->id.'/';
    File::makeDirectory(public_path($filePath));
    foreach ($images as $image){
        $filename = $image->getClientOriginalName();
        //Image::make($image)->resize(500,500)->save(public_path($filePath.$filename));
        $img = new Img;
        $img->name = $filename;
        $post->images()->save($img);
        Image::make($image); //->save(public_path($filePath.$filename));
    }

Here is my send mail code

public function postContact(Request $request)
    {
        $this->validate($request,[
          'email'=>'required|email',
          'message' => 'min:10',
          'subject' => 'min:10'
          ]);

        $data = array(
          'email' => $request->email,
          'bodyMessage' => $request->message,
          'subject' => $request->subject
        );
        Mail::send('emails.contact', $data, function($message) use ($data){
            $message->from($data['email']);
            $message->to('badmustaofeeq@gmail.com');
            $message->subject($data['subject']);
        });
        Session::flash('success',' Email was sent successfully!');
        return redirect()->route('contact.get');
    }
}

Here is my stacktrace


[2016-09-07 22:10:26] production.ERROR: ReflectionException: Class App\Http\Controller$ Stack trace: #0 /var/www/laravel/bootstrap/cache/compiled.php(8572): ReflectionMethod->__construct($ #1 /var/www/laravel/bootstrap/cache/compiled.php(8281): Illuminate\Routing\Route->sign$ #2 /var/www/laravel/bootstrap/cache/compiled.php(8275): Illuminate\Routing\Router->sub$ #3 /var/www/laravel/bootstrap/cache/compiled.php(8266): Illuminate\Routing\Router->sub$ #4 /var/www/laravel/bootstrap/cache/compiled.php(8212): Illuminate\Routing\Router->fin$ #5 /var/www/laravel/bootstrap/cache/compiled.php(8207): Illuminate\Routing\Router->dis$ #6 /var/www/laravel/bootstrap/cache/compiled.php(2419): Illuminate\Routing\Router->dis$ #7 [internal function]: Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Kernel->Illuminate\Foundation\Http\$ #8 /var/www/laravel/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Pipeline.php(52): $ #9 /var/www/laravel/bootstrap/cache/compiled.php(3286): Illuminate\Routing\Pipeline->I$ #10 [internal function]: Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\CheckForMaintenanceMode$ #11 /var/www/laravel/bootstrap/cache/compiled.php(9963): call_user_func_array(Array, A$ #12 [internal function]: Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline->Illuminate\Pipeline{closure}(O$ #13 /var/www/laravel/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Pipeline.php(32):$ #14 [internal function]: Illuminate\Routing\Pipeline->Illuminate\Routing{closure}(Obj$ #15 /var/www/laravel/bootstrap/cache/compiled.php(9948): call_user_func(Object(Closure$ #16 /var/www/laravel/bootstrap/cache/compiled.php(2366): Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline-$ #17 /var/www/laravel/bootstrap/cache/compiled.php(2350): Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Ke$ #18 /var/www/laravel/public/index.php(53): Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Kernel->handle(O$ #19 {main

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Ryan Quinn
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September 9, 2016
Accepted Answer

The stacktrace doesn’t seem to give us much to go on. Based on the fact that this code worked properly on your build system but not on your droplet lets work under the assumption that this error is caused by a difference in the environment and not the code itself.

Without having this narrowed down to just one of those two functions there are a few possibilities.

  • Mail PHP’s mail functionality requires you have a local MTA on your system. Doing apt-get install postfix or apt-get install sendmail would meet those requirements and allow PHP applications to send emails.

  • Image - image manipulation in PHP usually requires additional libraries such as php7.0-gd or php7.0-imagick which do the heavy lifting. You can install these with apt-get install php7.0-imagick php7.0-gd

There are a couple other possibilities you can check if these changes to not resolve the issue.

  • Is your local server using Ubuntu 16.04 with PHP 7? 16.04 was the first Ubuntu release to use PHP 7 by default. Older versions use PHP 5.x

  • While I would think that the error would be more obvious if this were the problem the line File::makeDirectory(publicpath($filePath)); could be a potential point of failure if the user running the web service (www-data by default on Ubuntu) does not have appropriate permissions to the directory. You can ensure this by doing a chown -Rf www-data:www-data /path/to/directory where /path/to/directory is the path to the location where these folders will be created.

If these fail to resolve the issue or you encounter other problems with your deployment let us know.

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