Many PHP programmers use Laravel to create their applications. Laravel is a free and open source PHP web application framework. It is based on multiple Symfony components and provides a development framework, including authentication, routing, sessions, caching and other modules.
Last summer, we introduced support for Blade . Blade is Laravel's template language, artist-friendly, and a command-line tool for Laravel programmers that can work in PhpStorm. Using Laravel plugins and Laravel IDE helpers, we can further extend PhpStorm's support for Laravel applications. Let’s see how to do it!
Laravel IDE Assistant
First confirm that Composer is available in our Project, we can use the Composer | Add dependency… right-click menu to install Laravel IDE helper to our project. Search barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper, and click Install to download and Add to project.
After registering the 'BarryvdhLaravelIdeHelperIdeHelperServiceProvider' service to our application and running artisan ide-helper:generate, PhpStorm will have code completion and Laravel syntax highlighting.
Laravel plugin in PhpStorm
To further enhance our Laravel experience, we can also install Laravel plug-ins. In Settings (Preferences) | Plugins, click the Browse repositories… button and search for Laravel. The Install plugin button will download and install the plug-in to the IDE.
Restart the IDE and enable the plugin (Settings (Preferences) | Other Settings | Laravel Plugin | Enable Plugin for this Project). PhpStorm knows what Laravel's interface does, and provides it (controllers, views, routes, configuration, translations, etc.) Code completion feature!
Of course it’s not just code completion, using Ctrl Click (CMD Click Mac OS X) or Go To Declaration (Ctrl B / CMD B), PhpStorm will navigate there, such as the declaration of a configuration item.
Regarding using Blade templates, Laravel plug-ins can also improve the experience, such as: automatic car completion modification of @section directive.
Want to know more? Check out our Laravel Tutorial, which covers everything PhpStorm has to offer for Laravel development, including code auto-completion, navigation, automatic code inspection, command line tool support, debugging and unit testing!
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