To make PhpStorm smarter and provide accurate autocompletion for Laravel development, you can install the Laravel IDE Helper Generator package by Barry vd. Heuvel.
This package will help to generate all the necessary files, metadata, and docblocks that will allow PhpStorm to know more about the classes, methods, and properties.
Step 1 - Install Laravel IDE Helper
Require the package using composer.
This package will help to generate all the necessary files, metadata, and docblocks that will allow PhpStorm to know more about the classes, methods, and properties.
Step 1 - Install Laravel IDE Helper
Require the package using composer.
composer require --dev barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper
Step 2 - Run Command to Generate PHPDoc
Once it's installed, you can run the command to generate the PHPDoc.
php artisan ide-helper:generate php artisan ide-helper:models -W php artisan ide-helper:meta
Step 3 - Invalidate Caches / Restart PhpStorm
The final step is to invalidate existing caches or restart your PhpStorm to let it re-index all of the files.
Optional: Publish Configuration
To publish configuration you can run the command below.
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Barryvdh\LaravelIdeHelper\IdeHelperServiceProvider" --tag=config
Optional: Composer Post Update Command
Sometimes you don't want to type out the command to re-generate the PHPDoc, to automatically do that after "composer update" you add the following "post-update-cmd" which will run after updating dependencies.
# composer.json
"scripts": {
"post-update-cmd": [
"Illuminate\\Foundation\\ComposerScripts::postUpdate",
"@php artisan ide-helper:generate",
"@php artisan ide-helper:models -W",
"@php artisan ide-helper:meta"
]
}
