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):
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.