Visual Studio Code PHP Intelephense Keep Showing Not Necessary Error

Question

After the latest update of PHP Intelephense that I get today, the intelephense keep showing an error for an undefined symbol for my route (and other class too), there is no

Answer 1

This solution may help you if you know your problem is limited to Facades and you are running Laravel 5.5 or above.

Install laravel-ide-helper

composer require --dev barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper

Add this conditional statement in your AppServiceProvider to register the helper class.

public function register()
{
    if ($this->app->environment() !== 'production') {
        $this->app->register(\Barryvdh\LaravelIdeHelper\IdeHelperServiceProvider::class);
    }
    // ...
}

Then run php artisan ide-helper:generate to generate a file to help the IDE understand Facades. You will need to restart Visual Studio Code.

References

https://laracasts.com/series/how-to-be-awesome-in-phpstorm/episodes/16

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