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laravel Cannot declare class, because the name is already in use

Fancy Ferret answered on September 9, 2022 Popularity 9/10 Helpfulness 8/10

answer laravel Cannot declare class, because the name is already in use

laravel Cannot declare class, because the name is already in use

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This error can happen if the migration filename is not a snake-case 
version of the class name.

So a migration file 2019_01_18_020910_create_roles_table.php must contain 
the class CreateRolesTable. 
If it contains the class CreateRoleTable, with a missing s, 
then the "Cannot declare X..." error is thrown. 
I've found this on Laravel 8, and may apply to earlier versions.

It appears to happen because Laravel loads the migration file multiple 
times when the filename is misspelled, and the second time loading is 
when the exception is throw.

EDIT : Same issue can happen with the Model class name. 
I had a "GroupProfileRole" Model and a create_group_profile_role migration.
I had to make sure that everything is plural everywhere.

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