The command in the guide is wrong, looks like you're after php artisan controller:make UserController

Although that shouldn't cause the problem of the missing autoloader. Try running composer dump-autoload and php artisan optimize

Hi iWader

Thanks for the reply. Running composer dump-autoload gives me this warning

PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/phar.so' - /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/phar.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0

php artisan optimise gives me this fatal error.

Fatal error: Class 'Patchwork\Utf8\Bootup' not found in /home/jwstuffi/public_html/laravel-stuff/laravel-master/bootstrap/autoload.php on line 46

Think I need to re-install.