laravel 5 ide autocompletion

Question

I want to switch to laravel 5, but have some trouble with ide - autocompletion. I'm using phpstorm. In google, the answers always end up with suggesting to use https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper . But it seems like it is broken for Laravel 5.

The steps I am doing are:

1. Install Laravel 5

   composer create-project laravel/laravel 
   

2. Require ide-helper

   composer require barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper
   

3. Added 'Barryvdh\LaravelIdeHelper\IdeHelperServiceProvider',

   ....
   'Illuminate\Translation\TranslationServiceProvider',
   'Illuminate\Validation\ValidationServiceProvider',
   'Illuminate\View\ViewServiceProvider',
   'Barryvdh\LaravelIdeHelper\IdeHelperServiceProvider',
   

4. Trying to generate the helper file

   artisan ide-helper:generate
   

But it always breaks with following error:

exception 'InvalidArgumentException' with message 'There are no commands defined in the "ide-helper" namespace.' in C:\xampp\htdocs\test\vendor\symfony\console\Symfony\Component\Console\Application.php:501

0 C:\xampp\htdocs\test\vendor\symfony\console\Symfony\Component\Console\Application.php(535): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->findNamespace('ide-helper')
1 C:\xampp\htdocs\test\vendor\symfony\console\Symfony\Component\Console

\Application.php(192): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->find('ide-helper:gene...')
2 C:\xampp\htdocs\test\vendor\symfony\console\Symfony\Component\Console\Application.php(126): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRun(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Outpu
t\ConsoleOutput))
3 C:\xampp\htdocs\test\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel.php(91): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->run(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Out
put\ConsoleOutput))
4 C:\xampp\htdocs\test\artisan(36): Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel->handle(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
5 {main}

Maybe someone had the same issue and can help me. I'm open for different solutions for autocompletion other than barryvdh's ide-helper.

Answer 1

I had the same problem and this fixed it:

Before you run php artisan ide-helper:generate command, make sure to php artisan clear-compiled and php artisan optimize as it's noted here. If this didn't fixed your problem, take a look at this and clean out PhpStorm cache by choosing this:

File | Invalidate Caches/Restart

After auto restarting, PhpStorm will index again and everything should work fine.

Sorry for my bad english.

Edited: After these steps import your Facades like this use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth link them inside your _ide_helper.php file like use Auth.