QA: PhpStorm doesn’t recognize Eloquent methods
Well well well, look who is having the most irritating problem when working with Laravel and PhpStorm 🙋♂️.
You may have tried laravel-ide-helper, let’s be honest here, who wants to have their projects flooded with code that does not add real value for the user but only for developer?
The answer: not me 😤
Problem:
You may see in your PhpStorm project similar errors, when using eloquent methods, like for example ::updateOrCreate() or ::create().
Solution:
Is called php docblock. Take a look at the code below. There is a bit of doc block annotating the eloquent class with properties and also with @mixing declaration.
This declaration will simply make your method clickable and by doing so you will know, if you may have made a mistake or a typo.
<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder;
/**
* @property int $id
* @property string $name
*
* @mixin Builder
*/
class JiraCloudInstanceProject extends Model {
}
A word of caution here, be sure to use a Builder class from the namespace Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder because otherwise it will not work.
Wrapping up:
In this article I showed you how to solve the most irritating problem when coding with Laravel and PhpStorm.
Hope this helps.
Yours in coding,
Until next time
Ivan
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