Undefined class Route (Laravel in PhpStorm)

Question

How can I fix this alert in PhpStorm?

And also how to get autocompletion for Route and other Facades?

Answer 1

Check the Laracasts walkthrough

1) Go to: https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper

2) Click on the gist

Generated version for L5: https://gist.github.com/barryvdh/5227822

3) Click on "Raw" to get the current version (as of June 22, 2016 it is):

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/barryvdh/5227822/raw/4d4b0ca26055fa4753b38edeb94fad2396c497c0/_ide_helper.php

4) Make sure you're in your root directory (this is mine)

cd /var/www/html/project

5) Download the gist:

wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/barryvdh/5227822/raw/4d4b0ca26055fa4753b38edeb94fad2396c497c0/_ide_helper.php

6) Add "_ide_helper.php" to the .gitignore file

sudo nano .gitignore

Add "_ide_helper.php" on a new line at the bottom

7) Download the .gitignore and _ide_helper.php files into PhpStorm

This is what my PhpStorm project directory looks like afterwards:

8) After the files are downloaded into PhpStorm, the "Undefined class" error will disappear and autocompletion will now work. Might need to restart it.

Answer 2

There is greate IDE support for Laravel shipped from Baryvdh:

https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper

after you install it you just call in the console:

php artisan ide-helper:generate

which generate alll facede shortcuts in _ide_helper.php file (which you have to exclude from git)

There is also something special for PhpStorm:

php artisan ide-helper:meta

which will give Laravel container context for example:

$foo = app(Foo::class);

PhpStorm will know that the $foo variable is type of Foo class.

Answer 3

I know this is an old thread, but it is still relevant. For me, I decided to add the following to my routes/web.php since I don't want to have to worry about regenerating meta data for the app.

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;

Edit: The above does not add any overhead to PHP as the use simply acts as a reference for PHP.