title: error Class "HTML" not found - Laravel 5.4
body: <p>I am getting the following error: </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Class 'HTML' not found (View:
    C:\WORK\Software\XamppOne\htdocs\APOSTXUI\ContractorsClubField\resources\views\includes_header.blade.php)
    (View:
    C:\WORK\Software\XamppOne\htdocs\APOSTXUI\ContractorsClubField\resources\views\includes_header.blade.php)</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I have seen answers for 51., 5.2 and 5.3 - but - I have not seen anything for 5.4.</p>
  
  <p><strong>This is what I got when I did the update:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>PS C:\WORK\Software\XamppOne\htdocs\APOSTXUI\ContractorsClubField&gt; composer update
  Loading composer repositories with package information
  Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
  Package operations: 0 installs, 1 update, 0 removals
    - Updating laravelcollective/html (v5.4.8 =&gt; v5.4): Downloading (100%)
  Writing lock file
  Generating autoload files
  &gt; Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts::postUpdate
  &gt; php artisan optimize
  Generating optimized class loader
  The compiled services file has been removed.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I did the following:</p>
  
  <p><strong>composer.json</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>"require": {
      "php": "&gt;=5.6.4",
      "laravel/framework": "5.4.*",
      "laravel/tinker": "~1.0",
      "artisaninweb/laravel-soap": "0.3.*",
      "laravelcollective/html": "5.4"
  },
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>then I ran <strong>composer update</strong></p>
  
  <p><strong>I put the following in app.php</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  
  return [
  
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | Application Name
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | This value is the name of your application. This value is used when the
      | framework needs to place the application's name in a notification or
      | any other location as required by the application or its packages.
      */
  
      'name' =&gt; 'Laravel',
  
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | Application Environment
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | This value determines the "environment" your application is currently
      | running in. This may determine how you prefer to configure various
      | services your application utilizes. Set this in your ".env" file.
      |
      */
  
      'env' =&gt; env('APP_ENV', 'production'),
  
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | Application Debug Mode
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | When your application is in debug mode, detailed error messages with
      | stack traces will be shown on every error that occurs within your
      | application. If disabled, a simple generic error page is shown.
      |
      */
  
      'debug' =&gt; env('APP_DEBUG', false),
  
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | Application URL
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | This URL is used by the console to properly generate URLs when using
      | the Artisan command line tool. You should set this to the root of
      | your application so that it is used when running Artisan tasks.
      |
      */
  
      'url' =&gt; env('APP_URL', 'http://localhost'),
  
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | Application Timezone
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | Here you may specify the default timezone for your application, which
      | will be used by the PHP date and date-time functions. We have gone
      | ahead and set this to a sensible default for you out of the box.
      |
      */
  
      'timezone' =&gt; 'UTC',
  
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | Application Locale Configuration
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | The application locale determines the default locale that will be used
      | by the translation service provider. You are free to set this value
      | to any of the locales which will be supported by the application.
      |
      */
  
      'locale' =&gt; 'en',
  
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | Application Fallback Locale
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | The fallback locale determines the locale to use when the current one
      | is not available. You may change the value to correspond to any of
      | the language folders that are provided through your application.
      |
      */
  
      'fallback_locale' =&gt; 'en',
  
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | Encryption Key
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | This key is used by the Illuminate encrypter service and should be set
      | to a random, 32 character string, otherwise these encrypted strings
      | will not be safe. Please do this before deploying an application!
      |
      */
  
      'key' =&gt; env('APP_KEY'),
  
      'cipher' =&gt; 'AES-256-CBC',
  
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | Logging Configuration
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | Here you may configure the log settings for your application. Out of
      | the box, Laravel uses the Monolog PHP logging library. This gives
      | you a variety of powerful log handlers / formatters to utilize.
      |
      | Available Settings: "single", "daily", "syslog", "errorlog"
      |
      */
  
      'log' =&gt; env('APP_LOG', 'single'),
  
      'log_level' =&gt; env('APP_LOG_LEVEL', 'debug'),
  
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | Autoloaded Service Providers
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | The service providers listed here will be automatically loaded on the
      | request to your application. Feel free to add your own services to
      | this array to grant expanded functionality to your applications.
      |
      */
  
      'providers' =&gt; [
  
          /*
           * Laravel Framework Service Providers...
           */
          Illuminate\Auth\AuthServiceProvider::class,
          Illuminate\Broadcasting\BroadcastServiceProvider::class,
          Illuminate\Bus\BusServiceProvider::class,
          Illuminate\Cache\CacheServiceProvider::class,
          Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\ConsoleSupportServiceProvider::class,
          Illuminate\Cookie\CookieServiceProvider::class,
          Illuminate\Database\DatabaseServiceProvider::class,
          Illuminate\Encryption\EncryptionServiceProvider::class,
          Illuminate\Filesystem\FilesystemServiceProvider::class,
          Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\FoundationServiceProvider::class,
          Illuminate\Hashing\HashServiceProvider::class,
          Illuminate\Mail\MailServiceProvider::class,
          Illuminate\Notifications\NotificationServiceProvider::class,
          Illuminate\Pagination\PaginationServiceProvider::class,
          Illuminate\Pipeline\PipelineServiceProvider::class,
          Illuminate\Queue\QueueServiceProvider::class,
          Illuminate\Redis\RedisServiceProvider::class,
          Illuminate\Auth\Passwords\PasswordResetServiceProvider::class,
          Illuminate\Session\SessionServiceProvider::class,
          Illuminate\Translation\TranslationServiceProvider::class,
          Illuminate\Validation\ValidationServiceProvider::class,
          Illuminate\View\ViewServiceProvider::class,
  
          /*
           * Package Service Providers...
           */
          Laravel\Tinker\TinkerServiceProvider::class,
  
          /*
           * Application Service Providers...
           */
          App\Providers\AppServiceProvider::class,
          App\Providers\AuthServiceProvider::class,
          // App\Providers\BroadcastServiceProvider::class,
          App\Providers\EventServiceProvider::class,
          App\Providers\RouteServiceProvider::class,
          // FROM: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28847726/laravel-5-class-html-not-found
          //trying to use HTML class (KDC)
           Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider::class,
           'Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider',
      ],
      'serviceProviders' =&gt; [
          'Artisaninweb\SoapWrapper\ServiceProvider',
      ],
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | Class Aliases
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | This array of class aliases will be registered when this application
      | is started. However, feel free to register as many as you wish as
      | the aliases are "lazy" loaded so they don't hinder performance.
      |
      */
  
      'aliases' =&gt; [
  
          'App' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\App::class,
          'Artisan' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Artisan::class,
          'Auth' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth::class,
          'Blade' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Blade::class,
          'Broadcast' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Broadcast::class,
          'Bus' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Bus::class,
          'Cache' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cache::class,
          'Config' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Config::class,
          'Cookie' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cookie::class,
          'Crypt' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Crypt::class,
          'DB' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB::class,
          'Eloquent' =&gt; Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model::class,
          'Event' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Event::class,
          'File' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\File::class,
          'Gate' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Gate::class,
          'Hash' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Hash::class,
          'Lang' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Lang::class,
          'Log' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log::class,
          'Mail' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail::class,
          'Notification' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Notification::class,
          'Password' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Password::class,
          'Queue' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Queue::class,
          'Redirect' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redirect::class,
          'Redis' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redis::class,
          'Request' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Request::class,
          'Response' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Response::class,
          'Route' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route::class,
          'Schema' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema::class,
          'Session' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Session::class,
          'Storage' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage::class,
          'URL' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\URL::class,
          'Validator' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\Validator::class,
          'View' =&gt; Illuminate\Support\Facades\View::class,
          'SoapWrapper' =&gt; Artisaninweb\SoapWrapper\Facade::class,
          //FROM: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28847726/laravel-5-class-html-not-found
          //trying to access the HTML class
          'FORM' =&gt; Collective\Html\FormFacade::class,
          'HTML' =&gt; Collective\Html\HtmlFacade::class,
      ],
  
  ];
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Here is the snippet of code that is being ran</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;li&gt;
            &lt;a href="{{ HTML::linkRoute('logout') }}"&gt;
            &lt;i class="icon-key"&gt;&lt;/i&gt; Log Out &lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;/li&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What am I doing wrong here?</p>
  
  <p>TIA</p>