Laravel Live Templates for PhpStorm

How to:

1. Download and copy the xml file(s) to your templates folder:

• Windows: <your home directory>\.<product name><version number>\config\templates
• Linux: ~\.<product name><version number>\config\templates
• OS X: ~/Library/Preferences/<product name><version number>/templates

e.g. ~/Library/Preferences/PhpStorm2016.1/templates on OS X for PhpStorm 2016

2. Restart PhpStorm.

3. To see all templates, go to Preferences->Live Templates and expand the Template Group.

It's hard to remember shortcuts when there are a large number of options. A more efficient way is to take advantage of PhpStorm's Insert Live Template shortcut. Type as few or as many letters as you want and press Cmd + J. Then continue typing to filter the options.

For example, for the Schema Builder, type Sc or Sch or Schema and press Cmd + J.

Note: In the preview version of PhpStorm 8, live templates show up automatically as you type the first few letters. You should still press Cmd + J to filter out everything else (classes, variables, etc).

Supported Live Templates

• Annotations
• Blade
• Input
• Request
• Cookie
• Route
• View
• Response
• Redirect
• Schema (includes column types)
• Cache
• Form
• Session
• Helpers

Annotations

Tip: Type @ and then Cmd+J inside a docblock to see the options.

Blade

Requests & Input

Routes

All Route verbs are labelled get by default, but you can change it easily once the shortcut is expanded:

Views, Responses and Redirects

Schema Builder

Cache

Form

Session

Helpers

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Other goodies

Take your PhpStorm productivity to the next level with these keyboard shortcuts.