PhpStorm: How to add method stubs from a PECL library that PhpStorm doesn't currently support?

Question

PhpStorm has a list of method stubs from various compile-time libraries here that it will use for autocompletion in development.

I currently have a list of stubs for the PHP AMQP PECL extension here that I would like to add to my PhpStorm build to get autocompletion for that library.

Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

Just place such stub file(s) anywhere in your project (or reference in any other supported way, e.g. as Settings | Languages & Frameworks | PHP | Include path) -- IDE will use it for code completion (and similar) purposes only (so you can exclude them from uploading/VCS etc).

In long term -- you may submit the PR to the already mentioned PhpStorm stubs repository and it may become part of the standard PhpStorm distribution on next release.

Answer 2

January 2017 Update: You can git clone (checkout) the PhpStorm stubs repository to your local machine, and point PhpStorm to that directory. From there you can add stubs or even modify/delete existing stubs.

1. git clone https://github.com/JetBrains/phpstorm-stubs
2. Open Preferences -> Languages & Frameworks -> PHP
3. Click Advanced Settings at the bottom
4. Next to Default stubs path, click the ... and navigate to the root of your phpstorm-stubs folder