Eloquent ORM Code Hinting in PhpStorm

Question

So I\'m just starting off with Laravel (using v5) and Eloquent. I\'m working on getting some basic APIs up and running and noticing that a lot of working methods don\'t show

Answer 1

A little late but I recently had the same problem so I thought I would put a note down:

This is because Database\Eloquent\Model.php has a query() function which returns \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder and the Eloquent\Builder has a line:

use Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder as QueryBuilder;

Then it uses 'magic' __call methods to call to functions in Query\Builder. (look for __call method in Eloquent\Builder)

See: http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.overloading.php#object.call

__call() is triggered when invoking inaccessible methods in an object context.

So, indeed the method you are calling is inaccessible :) There is not much that the IDE can do.

There are workarounds like using @method tags but it is unmaintainable. An alternative is to use @mixin (but this is not standards based). See: https://github.com/laravel/framework/issues/7558

I think this all be resolved when they get rid of all the magic calls in the Laravel code and use PHP 'traits' instead. See last message here. :)