I got View [index] not found. error in custom plugin - laravel

Question

Making custom plugin with “QuizzesInit” name I have problems, I suppose because of double names plugin.
My plugin is located in /projects_path/quizzes/packages/vendorname/QuizzesInit/src/Providers/QuizzesInitProvider.php file and has content:
<?php
// My phpstorm shows error here : Namespace name doesn't match the PSR-0/PSR-4 project structure
namespace vendorname\QuizzesInit\Providers;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
class QuizzesInitProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
/**
* Bootstrap services.
*
* #return void
*/
public function boot()
{
$this->loadRoutesFrom(__DIR__.'/../routes/web.php');
$this->loadViewsFrom(__DIR__ . '/views', 'QuizzesInit' );
}
public function register()
{
}
}
Adding route in /projects_path/quizzes/packages/vendorname/QuizzesInit/src/routes/web.php :
Route::get('/quizzes', function () {
//packages/vendorname/QuizzesInit/src/views/index.blade.php
return view('QuizzesInit::index');
}); // ->middleware(['auth', 'verified'])->name('dashboard');
I got error on url "http://local-site.com/quizzes"
View [index] not found.
I do not know is this error is related with “QuizzesInit” name and Namespace name breaking PSR-0/PSR-4 project structure I show in my provider ?
In all docs (like https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/packages#service-providers) in 1 word plugin names are used...
How can it be fixed ?
UPDATED INFO # 1:
At docs https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/packages#service-providers that is not clear actually which composer commands I need to run
I run
composer init
in clear vendorname/QuizzesInit directory
and created new composer project
I run in project root :
composer dump-autoload
with success, but it did not show my package
when I run composer require with my package in project root :
$ composer require vendorname\QuizzesInit
In PackageDiscoveryTrait.php line 364:
Could not find a matching version of package vendornameQuizzesInit. Check the package spelling, your version constraint and that the package is available in a stability which matches your minimum-stability (dev).
in composer.json I have :
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"App\": "app/",
"Database\Factories\": "database/factories/",
"vendorname\QuizzesInit\": "packages/vendorname/QuizzesInit/src/",
"Database\Seeders\": "database/seeders/"
}
},
5)Inside of my /packages/vendorname/QuizzesInit/src I have files :
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 585 Feb 14 08:47 composer.json
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 95971 Feb 14 07:34 composer.lock
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 14 07:35 Providers
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 14 08:53 routes
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 14 07:34 src
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Feb 14 07:34 vendor
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 15 06:39 views
But am not sure now which command did I run, I run differend commands in root dir and /packages/vendorname/QuizzesInit...
I found in net some step by step manuals(like https://adevait.com/laravel/how-to-create-a-custom-package-for-laravel),
but it is somewhat confusing for me, which commands have I to run at first and during development of the package ?
UPDATED INFO # 2 :
In packages/vendorname/QuizzesInit/src/routes/web.php I added :
Route::get('/quizzes_count', function () {
return 'quizzes_count';
});
So running http://local-com.com/quizzes_count
I got valid 'quizzes_count' string in my browse, so I think my plugin is installed correctly and in
provider file packages/vendorname/QuizzesInit/src/Providers/QuizzesInitProvider.php having 2 options :
public function boot()
{
$this->loadRoutesFrom(__DIR__.'/../routes/web.php');
// routes with line above works ok
// view with line below does not work at all
$this->loadViewsFrom(__DIR__ . '/views', 'QuizzesInit' );
}
?
UPDATED INFO # 3 :
# Project/packages/vendorname/QuizzesInit/src/views$ ls -la
total 8
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 15 06:39 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Feb 15 06:39 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 643 Feb 15 06:40 index.blade.php
UPDATED INFO # 4:
I write
__DIR__ . '/views'
value into log on and have :
Project/packages/vendorname/QuizzesInit/src/Providers/views
But it is different from real path :
Project/packages/vendorname/QuizzesInit/src/views/index.blade.php
Where from "Providers/"? Or have I to add this "Providers/" subdirectory in my options? Where ?
Thanks!

Answer 1

This makes a lot of sense after all the info you've supplied.
$this->loadViewsFrom(__DIR__ . '/views', 'QuizzesInit' ); is located in packages/vendorname/QuizzesInit/src/Providers/QuizzesInitProvider.php
If you look up what the documentation says about __DIR__, Returns the directory of the file., it will all make sense.
Your QuizzesInitProvider.php is located in packages/vendorname/QuizzesInit/src/Providers, so that's what __DIR__ will return to you.
However, you are looking for the Views directory, which is not under /Providers, but one step up,
So in order to get to the Views directory, you have to do exactly the same thing you did with the routes (can't believe neither of us spotted this sooner), so $this->loadViewsFrom(__DIR__ . '/views', 'QuizzesInit' ); will now become $this->loadViewsFrom(__DIR__.'/../views', 'QuizzesInit' ); with the dots signifying that you want to move one directory up from the current directory (/Providers) and then move into the /views directory.
TL;DR:
Change: $this->loadViewsFrom(__DIR__ . '/views', 'QuizzesInit' );
to: $this->loadViewsFrom(__DIR__.'/../views', 'QuizzesInit' );