The following threads do not solve it for me:-
Fatal error: Class 'Google\Auth\OAuth2' not found
Class 'Google\Auth\OAuth2' not found
Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class 'Google_Client' not found
and even this one:-
Implementing Oauth2 login, Fatal error: Class 'Google_Service' not found
Hi everyone,
The exact logs from the error_log are below:-
PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Class 'Google\Auth\OAuth2' not found in /home/.../public_html/.../google/Client.php:954
Stack trace:
#0 /home/.../public_html/.../google/Client.php(943): Google_Client->createOAuth2Service()
#1 /home/.../public_html/.../google/Client.php(338): Google_Client->getOAuth2Service()
#2 /home/.../public_html/.../logintest.php(39): Google_Client->createAuthUrl()
#3 {main}
  thrown in /home/.../public_html/.../google/Client.php on line 954
Below are a few lines from the Client.php
  public function getOAuth2Service()
  {
    if (!isset($this->auth)) {
      $this->auth = $this->createOAuth2Service();
    }
    return $this->auth;
  }
  /**
   * create a default google auth object
   */
  protected function createOAuth2Service()
  {
    $auth = new OAuth2(
        [
          'clientId'          => $this->getClientId(),
          'clientSecret'      => $this->getClientSecret(),
          'authorizationUri'   => self::OAUTH2_AUTH_URL,
          'tokenCredentialUri' => self::OAUTH2_TOKEN_URI,
          'redirectUri'       => $this->getRedirectUri(),
          'issuer'            => $this->config['client_id'],
          'signingKey'        => $this->config['signing_key'],
          'signingAlgorithm'  => $this->config['signing_algorithm'],
        ]
    );
    return $auth;
  }
Line #3 of the stack trace indicates (to me) that the inclusion of autoload.php and Client.php is done correctly
I am on shared hosting which is why I could not install via Composer. I just download and copied the files (as per https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-php-client#installation).
This is how I included the files
set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . '/../google/');
include_once __DIR__ . '/../google/autoload.php';
require_once 'google/Client.php';
require_once 'google/Service.php';
The error trigger at the following line in the PHP code:-
$url = $client->createAuthUrl();
Please help!