Can stubs be used to hint PHPStorm?

[jameshulse]

Hi, I'm new to the Larastan project but I came across the 'stubs' which look really complete. Is it possible to use these in PHPStorm to improve Laravel type hinting? Is this their purpose? Or are they used by Larastan for it's analysis?

Thanks!

[calebdw]

Take a look at the laravel-ide-helper package. The stubs are used to override the vendor type hints for the analysis.

[jameshulse]

Thanks. We use laravel-ide-helper, but there are still some issues with Laravel query builder functions not knowing that they return an instance of the model. Larastan's stubs look to address that by introducing templating to the builder doc strings.

[szepeviktor]

You may want to read this https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2018/03/how-to-provide-stubs-for-phpstorm/

[jameshulse]

Thanks. I did find this so might try it myself - but I was wondering how other people were managing this, or if they have created a public plugin themselves?

[jameshulse]

Update: I tried this, and can't get any improvements to my intellisense. I'll keep digging - maybe an update to Laravel needs to be made directly to support templates on it's classes.