PHP Soapclient in Laravel 5

The class needs to be imported, so either do that at the top:

use SoapClient;

or reference it directly later:

$client = new \SoapClient($wsdl, $options);

I faced with same problem.

I activated Soap extension after I use php artisan serve command and although I restarted my apache server I received same error..

After too many tries I stop artisan and restart it again and that was the solution for me.