Create and set up a Laravel project with PhpStorm

Question

I'm pretty buzzing with all of the Homestead stuff and how it relates to the IDE. Say I have installed PhpStorm in ~/Developer/PhpStorm The Homestead is in ~/Developer/Homestead . Here's what my YAML file looks like in Homestead:

 authorize: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub keys: - ~/.ssh/id_rsa folders: - map: ~/Developer/Homestead/workspace to: /home/vagrant/Code sites: - map: helloworld.app to: /home/vagrant/Code/Laravel/public variables: - key: APP_ENV value: local 

So you see that I have a workspace folder in the Homestead directory. I also have another directory: ~/Developer/workspace/PHP , where I plan to store my projects, and not in the Homestead folder.

I installed the Laravel plugin in PhpStorm. And for the Laravel plugin to work in PhpStorm, this generated file is needed. My questions:

• Where exactly should I put the _ide_helper.php file for PhpStorm to work correctly with Laravel? Should I embed it in every project or just somewhere?
• Should I write a different application name in the YAML sites: map field for each project that I want to run atm?
• How to create a new project like Laravel. As in the case of creating a new project in PhpStorm, there are options that I can choose - should I also include Laravel there, because I do not? Because now when I create a new PHP project, it is completely empty. And I believe that the Laravel project should have some architecture and generated files.
• I am asking for a simple explanation of all this material by Laravel + Homestead and Vagrant and how to control my projects because I am very upset and I should start working with these technologies in my Bachelor project in the near future.

Answer 1

• You do not need to place the _ide_helper.php file anywhere manually, it is automatically generated by the Artisan team. For each new project, include the IDE helper in the composer.json project file:

   "require-dev": { "barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper": "1.*" } 

  Add the service provider to the providers array in the config.php your Laravel project:

   'Barryvdh\LaravelIdeHelper\IdeHelperServiceProvider' 

  Then use Artisan to create the _ide_helper.php file for the project (run this command from the terminal in the root of your Laravel project directory):

   php artisan ide-helper:generate 

  All of these are rephrased from the instructions on the IDE Helper GitHub page. I would recommend following these instructions to also configure your composer.json file to automatically create a new _ide_helper.php when updating the composer.

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2. Yes. For each individual Laravel project, you need to update your site mapping in the YAML file. For my projects, I use this scheme (note that you map it to a location relative to your Vagrant box):

    sites: - map: local.project.example.com to: /home/vagrant/Projects/project/public 

   Then in your Homestead directory, run:

    vagrant provision 

   You will also need to update the hosts file to indicate the Vagrant field.

    sudo nano /etc/hosts 

   Add a line:

    127.0.0.1 local.project.example.com 

   You should now have access to this Laravel project by clicking local.project.example.com:8000 in your web browser.

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   3. Assuming you follow the instructions of Laravel , the easiest way is to use the Laravel command in the terminal. To create a new Laravel project called a "blog", go to ~/Developer/workspace/PHP and run the command:

       laravel new blog 

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      4. Hope the answers above help you get started on the right track. The most important thing is to carefully read the Laravel documentation, as it covers everything that I just did, but in more detail.

Answer 2

thanks to Mike Andersen, you put me on the right track, but your number 1 solution doesn't work for me (using Laravel 5).

You need to run "composer update" after making changes to the composer.json file. But, when I did, I got this error:

 barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper v1.2.1 requires phpdocumentor/reflection-docblock dev-master#6d705c1a0f9e2a6d73d2e9ec0e538b9dfaf4315f -> no matching package found. 

I have another solution:

• remove the line about "barryvdh / laravel-ide-helper" from the require array on the composer.json file.
• run the following line: composer require barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper

Then you can follow the steps suggested by Mike Andersen:

3. Add the service provider to the providers array in the config.php file of your Laravel project:

   Barryvdh\LaravelIdeHelper\IdeHelperServiceProvider

4. Then use Artisan to create the _ide_helper.php file for the project (run this command from the terminal in the root of your Laravel project directory):

   php artisan ide-helper:generate

5. Open the project on phpStorm and go to: File|Synchronize .

And you will get an updated laravel project with the latest version of the extension barryvdh / laravel-ide-helper

(Additional info: https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper )