Installation Issue - Publish User Model

[aerostah]

Greetings,

As per the title of this issue, the automatic installation process stops on Step 2 of 5. Creating users table (using Laravel's default migration). The User table is indeed present, but it won't get past Step #2.

After moving to manual installation, this one particular command produces the following error:

> php artisan backpack:publish-user-model

Command "backpack:publish-user-model" is not defined.

These are my environment details, your wisdom is greatly appreciated.

PHP VERSION:

PHP 7.4.3 (cli) (built: Oct 6 2020 15:47:56) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.4.0, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.4.3, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies

LARAVEL VERSION:

v8.29.0@d2eba352b3b3a3c515b18c5726b373fe5026733e

BACKPACK VERSION:

4.1.36@779364646e3b57258b981ff9f1bdcd9887143836

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[promatik]

Hi @aerostah!
Thank you fr rising this, that's actually our fault, that command is no longer used.
That part of the documentation is outdated.

Sorry for the trouble, I've just pushed a PR to fix it.
For now you can just skip that command.

And if you wish we can help on the automatic installation process. It should work.
Let us know more details about the error.

[aerostah]

The problem is that when you go to create the user record in tinker, you get this error:

$user = new App\User();
PHP Error: Class 'App\User' not found in Psy Shell code on line 1

Both autoinstall and manual are not working. What command should i run to get the user model in place?

[promatik]

Hi @aerostah!
Laravel 8 now uses the User Model inside the App\Models folder.
Backpack supports this new approach since Laravel made the move.

I've never used Tinker, but make sure either you set it, or tinker knows the correct path of the User App\Models\User.

[aerostah]

Yes, I changed the command to:

$user = new App\Models\User();

This allowed me to run the other commands and create the account,

I appreciate the help. Thank you.