Laravel IDE Helper Generator

Complete phpDocs, directly from the source

Add the helper file to your laravel folder (not in a public folder). The file isn't used by Laravel, but it has to be indexed by your IDE.

• Generated version: https://gist.github.com/barryvdh/5227822

Automatic phpDoc generation for Laravel Facades

NOTE: run before optimising. If bootstrap/compiled.php is loaded, it doesn't work.

php artisan clear-compiled
php artisan ide-helper:generate
php artisan optimize

Require this package in your composer.json:

"barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper": "1.*"

And add the ServiceProvider to the providers array in app/config/app.php

'Barryvdh\LaravelIdeHelper\IdeHelperServiceProvider',

You can now re-generate the docs yourself (for future updates) in artisan

php artisan ide-helper:generate

Note: You do need CodeIntel for Sublime Text: https://github.com/Kronuz/SublimeCodeIntel

You can configure your composer.json to do this after each commit:

"scripts":{
    "post-update-cmd":[
        "php artisan ide-helper:generate",
        "php artisan optimize",
    ]
},

You can also publish the config-file to change implementations (ie. interface to specific class) or set defaults for --helpers or --sublime.

php artisan config:publish barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper

The generator tries to identify the real class, but if it cannot be found, you can define it in the config file.

Some classes need a working database connection. If you do not have a working default connection, some facades will not be included. You can use a in-memory sqlite driver, using the -M option.

You can choose to include helper files. This is not enabled by default, but you can override this with the --helpers (-H) option. The Illuminate/Support/helpers.php is already set-up, but you can add/remove your own files in the config file.

Work in progress: Model docs

If you don't want to write your properties yourself, you can use the (experimental) command ide-helper:models to generate phpDocs, based on table columns, relations and getters/setters. Still in beta, so please provide feedback if you want. Docs are written to a phpfile (_ide_helper_models.php) in the root of the project, so you can move the docs to the real model.

You can now also write the comments directly to your Model file, using the -W argument. Please make sure to backup your models, before writing the info. It should keep the existing comments and only append new properties/methods.

For now, only models in app/models are scanned. The optional argument tells what models to use (also outside app/models). php artisan ide-helper:models Post,User

Note: With namespaces, uses \ instead of
php artisan ide-helper:models API\\User

This creates a file with the phpDocs for each Model. You should check and change them to be more accurate. Also, all relations are Eloquent|Eloquent[] by default, you can change them to the actual Model. After copying the phpdocs to your model, you can clear the file, so your IDE only uses the real source.

License

The Laravel IDE Helper Generator is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license