vscode-intelephense VS laravel-ide-helper

I'm going to use intelephense to show the minimal configuration needed to setup a language server in Neovim.

This is the most important extension to install for PHP support. It provides a fast language server that adds code completion, go to definition, formatting, and more. You can also purchase a license at Intelephense, which I highly recommend. It adds some additional features like renaming symbols and other code actions.

You need to get the code, and use an IDE to help like vs code + PHP Intelephense (https://intelephense.com/)

I bought a license key to Intelephense https://intelephense.com/, and added the key as described in the documentation and several blog posts (at least I think I'm doing it right), however the paid features (e.g. rename symbol) don't work.

I'm quite happy with Emacs, coming from PhpStorm, using intelephense.com premium. I highly recommend.

Follow this guide to configure and add PHP Intelephense.

The error itself is the VSCode extension Intelephense, that is usually very helpful when writing PHP in VSCode, telling you that there is an error with an Undefined type ... after you have followed the steps outlined here in detail to install the permissions package on your Laravel app.

Furthermore, depending on which integrated development environment (IDE) you use, your editor detects the strict_types and warns you inside the editor before running your code. For example, I use the Intelephense extension inside Visual Studio Code, which warns me about wrong parameters before I run the code, like so:

Helix should use Intelephense by default, so if you install that, it should work out of the box. You can find installation instructions here 🙂

Look at either Intelephense or Devsense as plugins and you'll get a close to IDE level experience.

This works well, but it does make it harder for the IDE to handle unless you’re using something like the Laravel IDE Helper package.

barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper: IDE Helper for Laravel

Perhaps https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper? I haven’t used it in a while so can’t remember if it will specifically help with the results of methods like first().

This. As well as adding https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper as a dev package. Then run the artisan commands to generate helper files.

As an addition to what others have said - For Laravel development specifically, it is worth adding the https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper package to your dev dependencies.

https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper has helped me with this in the past.

What you're looking for is: https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper

Laravel has some magic inside of it, that's why create() doesn't show up in your IDE completion. Not sure if it works in VS Code, but the ide-helper package helps PhpStorm to understand the internals of Laravel better.

Why do you need an IDE for PHP? Its not compiled, there’s no GUI etc. You can get autocompletion etc for laravel in VS Code too with https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper

There is no exception in this case when using the package barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper that generates helper files that enable your IDE to provide accurate autocompletion.