google-api-php-client: Fatal error: Class 'Google_Client' not found

I had the same issue in laravel and solved it by importing the Google_Client :

use Google_Client;

Whoops, /src folder missing… thanks @bshaffer

check the file composer.json

and add “vendor/google/apiclient/src/Google” in classmap array if not exist.

and run composer dump-autoload

"autoload": {
        "classmap": [
            "vendor/google/apiclient/src/Google"
        ]
}

Hey @simonericci Can you do an ls -la in your root directory? It’s possible you’re in the wrong directory, and so pulling in a different vendor/autoload.php than the one required in this library. Also, perform an ls -la src/Google to verify the Client.php file exists where it should be.

I had the same issue in laravel and solved it by importing the Google_Client : use Google_Client;

Save me! For more clearly, importing use Google_Client; and then, instead of using new \Google_Client();, use new Google_Client(); (without backslash). This also applies to any other Google classes, eg. Google_Services_Adsense.

I tried everything as you mentioned but still getting error!!

Try this:

use Google\Client;

....

$client = new Client();

if you have “vendor/google/apiclient/src/Google” directory and still you get this error try use command.

use Google_Client;

@induraniv @Wakodebe @garciacarmonaam @luispinonferrer-capgemini Google_Client is located in src/Google/Client.php of the package archive.

The error ‘Fatal error: Class ‘Google_Client’ not found’ indicates that Client.php was not included/required explicitly or automatically. That is typically due to a line like

include_once __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';

not resolving to the correct location (in the package archive: vendor/autoload.php). The path of autoload is relative any file with this line so make sure to account for that if you paste this line into other files.