Laravel 4 Can't find BaseController from namespaced controller

Laravel 4 Can't find BaseController from namespaced controller

I'm trying to structure my Laravel 4 site such that (1) major application
groups' components (controllers/views/etc) are coupled together and (2)
Laravel's supporting code outside of in my web server's document root. The
default laravel home page loads fine, but I can't get a namespaced
controller to route correctly. This is the relevant file structure:
/ [Project Root]
/laravel [full laravel install here]
composer.json
/app
/controllers
BaseController.php
/dev
/htdocs
index.php
/app
/PageTypes
/Home
/controllers
HomeController.php
/views
HomeView.blade.php
The default laravel landing page is loading fine. But when I tried setting
up a controller with its own namespace, I keep getting the errors.
This is HomeController.php:
namespace PageTypes;
use Home\controllers;
class HomeController extends BaseController {
public function showWelcome()
{
return View::make('hello');
}
}
Here's routes.php:
<?php
Route::get('/', function()
{
return View::make('hello');
});
Route::get('/home',
'PageTypes\Home\controllers\HomeController@showWelcome' );
This setup yields the error: "Symfony \ Component \ Debug \ Exception \
FatalErrorException Class 'PageTypes\BaseController' not found" Ok,
laravel is finding HomeController.php at least.
Plenty of other SO responses told me to try changing BaseController to
\BaseController. Making that one change and leaving everything else the
same yielded the error "ReflectionException: Class
PageTypes\Home\controllers\HomeController does not exist." What the?...
>.<
I'm not understanding something at the intersection of namespaces, psr-0,
and laravel's routing, any help would be REALLY appreciated.
Followup questions: (1) what steps could I have taken to have debugged
this? NGINX's logs aren't really telling me anything other than what I see
in the exception errors being thrown. (2) Has anyone come across a laravel
seed on github that's laid out similarly? I'd love to have something to
reference.
Here are my configuration settings:
// index.php
...
require __DIR__.'/../../laravel/bootstrap/autoload.php';
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../../laravel/bootstrap/start.php';
...
// bootstrap/autoload.php
...
require __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';
...
// bootstrap/paths.php
...
'app' => __DIR__.'/../app',
'public' => __DIR__.'/../../dev/htdocs/',
'base' => __DIR__.'/..',
'storage' => __DIR__.'/../app/storage',
...
// compose.json
{
"name": "laravel/laravel",
"description": "The Laravel Framework.",
"keywords": ["framework", "laravel"],
"require": {
"laravel/framework": "4.0.*"
},
"autoload": {
"psr-0": {
"PageTypes": "../dev/htdocs/app"
},
"classmap": [
"app/commands",
"app/controllers",
"app/models",
"app/database/migrations",
"app/database/seeds",
"app/tests/TestCase.php"
]
},
"scripts": {
"post-install-cmd": [
"php artisan optimize"
],
"pre-update-cmd": [
"php artisan clear-compiled"
],
"post-update-cmd": [
"php artisan optimize"
],
"post-create-project-cmd": [
"php artisan key:generate"
]
},
"config": {
"preferred-install": "dist"
},
"minimum-stability": "dev"
}