Missing CreditCard Class when using Omnipay Paypal for Laravel 5 - paypal

Question

Here are the repo included in my composer:
omnipay &
paypal
In my config/laravel-omnipay.php:
'gateways' => [
'paypal' => [
'driver' => 'PayPal_Rest',
'options' => [
'solutionType' => '',
'landingPage' => '',
'headerImageUrl' => ''
]
]
]
Here is in my Controller:
// omnipay start
$gateway = Omnipay::create('PayPal_Rest');
// Initialise the gateway
$gateway->initialize(array(
'clientId' => 'xxxxxx',
'secret' => 'xxxxxx',
'testMode' => true, // Or false when you are ready for live transactions
));
// Create a credit card object
// DO NOT USE THESE CARD VALUES -- substitute your own
$card = new CreditCard(array(
'firstName' => $request->firstname,
'lastName' => $request->lastname,
'number' => $request->cardnumber,
'expiryMonth' => $month_year[0],
'expiryYear' => $month_year[1],
'cvv' => $request->ccv,
'billingAddress1' => $request->address
/*
'billingCountry' => 'AU',
'billingCity' => 'Scrubby Creek',
'billingPostcode' => '4999',
'billingState' => 'QLD',*/
));
// Do an authorisation transaction on the gateway
$transaction = $gateway->authorize(array(
'amount' => '100',
'currency' => 'USD',
'description' => $eventName->event_title,
'card' => $card,
));
$response = $transaction->send();
if ($response->isSuccessful()) {
echo "Authorize transaction was successful!\n";
// Find the authorization ID
$auth_id = $response->getTransactionReference();
}
I've got this error:
Class 'App\Http\Controllers\CreditCard' not found
Note: If I use RestGateway to replace PayPal_Rest, I get this error instead:
Class '\Omnipay\RestGateway\Gateway' not found
Searching an answer for a long time but didn't find a solution that works for me. So, not entirely sure how to proceed.

Answer 1

You need to have this at the top of your class file:
use Omnipay\Common\CreditCard;

Answer 2

$creditCard = new \Omnipay\Common\CreditCard([...]);
Backslash
Further reading: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4790020/what-does-a-backslash-do-in-php-5-3#:~:text=%5C%20(backslash)%20is%20the%20namespace,name%20in%20the%20current%20namespace.
The issue is because it will fetch the class from the global namespace - rather than the current namespace.