Tutorial (Class 'App\Models\NewsModel' not found)

You didn't namespace your model. Assuming your model is stored at applications/Models/NewsModel.php, you should have this line at the very top of the file:

Code:

namespace App\Models;

That's how the application knows where to find it.

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