PhpStorm not showing project files in project view

Question

After I had installed PhpStorm and created a project from an existing source files, The project pane is not showing any file from the directory. So how can we solve the problem?

Answer 1

In case both above solutions do not work, try this following approach:

1. cd to your projects .idea Folder

2. Check if there is a file called project_name.iml. If this is not the case create it and paste the following content to it

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <module type="WEB_MODULE" version="4">   <component name="NewModuleRootManager">     <content url="file://$MODULE_DIR$"></content>   </component> </module> 

3. Then check if there is a file called modules.xml. If this is not the case create it and paste the following content to it (which targets to your previously created project_name.iml)

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project version="4">   <component name="ProjectModuleManager">     <modules>       <module fileurl="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/.idea/project_name.iml" filepath="$PROJECT_DIR$/.idea/project_name.iml" />     </modules>   </component> </project> 

4. Restart PhpStorm

Answer 2

After investigation on the issue, I got the solution as follow:

1. Remove .idea directory from your root project directory
2. Invalidate and restart your IDE , FILE -> Invalidate cache /Restart -> then click on Invalidate cache and restart
3. You are done :)

Here is the source

https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/207066915-Project-view-not-showing-directories