XF 2.0 Xenforo Addon Development with PHP Storm

[Cromulent]

I'm new to PHP development (but not new to programming) and want to use PHP Storm as my IDE. I've set up a virtual machine running Ubuntu 18.04 as that is what my VPS is running and I just have one simple question.

If I want to get full code completion for Xenforo addons am I right in thinking I just open the whole Xenforo folder in PHP Storm and then follow the instructions for creating an addon in the documentation? Hopefully that way I'll get full code completion which should help with development.

 

[Sim]

Yup - pretty much. Once PHPStorm has been pointed to the root of your XenForo folder, it will automatically parse all of the code and do auto-completion for you. Works really well.

 

[Cromulent]

Yup - pretty much. Once PHPStorm has been pointed to the root of your XenForo folder, it will automatically parse all of the code and do auto-completion for you. Works really well.

Awesome. Thanks .

 

[Lukas W.]

Make sure to use type-hinting, especially for entity properties. Makes your life so much easier.